St George's Free Church Hall, 48 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Church hall. 5 related planning applications.
St George's Free Church Hall, 48 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- stranded-flint-umber
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Church hall
- OS grid reference
- NX 970 762
- Coordinates
- 55.06976, -3.61435
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St George's Free Church Hall, located at 48 Buccleuch Street in Dumfries, was designed by James Halliday in 1883. This Neo-Jacobean building serves as St George's Church Hall and features a tall, two-storey structure with attics and a basement. The design is symmetrical, comprising three bays, with the central bay projecting outward at the first-floor level and topped by a crowstepped gable.
The façade is framed by broad pilasters with foliated capitals that surround shop windows and a central door. Below the first-floor bipartite window, which is mullioned and transomed in the Tudor style with hoodmoulds, there is a string course. Above this, a small arch window is positioned over a segmented arched recess that contains a panel depicting the burning bush, accompanied by the legend "Nec tamen consumebatur."
The building features a cornice beneath the attic windows, adorned with ornamental water heads and downpipes that connect to the eaves. There are two dormer-headed windows with pediments and finials. The central window in the gable is topped with a Jacobean pediment. At the rear of the hall, Gothic windows with plate tracery and blind heads can be found.
Local climate
St George's Free Church Hall, 48 Buccleuch 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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