116 English Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Commercial. 1 related planning application.

116 English Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
twelfth-basalt-dust
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 March 1981
Type
Commercial
OS grid reference
NX 974 761
Coordinates
55.06916, -3.60681
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

116 English Street in Dumfries is a building dating from around 1870, consisting of two adjoining two-storey blocks, each roughly three bays wide. Each block features two central doors, with smaller doors leading to shops; one of these doors is now blocked, while the other (at No 114) has been altered to include glazing, along with a modified shop front. The exterior is finished in polished red ashlar with decorative architraves. The block at No 118 includes a consoled balcony above the door. Most openings are segmental-arched, with plate glass sash windows; the outer bays have bipartite windows. There are string courses dividing the floors, angle pilaster strips, decorative eaves moulding, straight skews, and end stacks, all topped by a slate roof.

Local climate

116 English Street, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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