Imperial Hotel, 35 King Street, Castle Douglas is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Inn.

Imperial Hotel, 35 King Street, Castle Douglas

WRENN ID
stony-step-ebony
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Inn
OS grid reference
NX 765 625
Coordinates
54.94221, -3.92804
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Imperial Hotel, located at 35 King Street in Castle Douglas, is a mid-19th century, two-storey inn. It is constructed of painted coursed rubble and features smooth rusticated quoins. The building has a seven-bay street elevation that includes a central depressed arch pend with bold voussoirs and rusticated jambs, along with a single light window positioned above. On either side of this central feature, there are symmetrical three-bay elevations with central doorways. All openings are adorned with architraves and hoodmoulds, while the single light windows are fitted with four-pane sashes. The door to the left has a modern projecting hood.

A band course runs along the first floor cills, and there is a moulded eaves cornice. The building is topped with corniced axial stacks that have octagonal cans, flat skews, and slate roofs, along with a bowed dormer on the left side.

Local climate

Imperial Hotel, 35 King Street, Castle Douglas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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