Nithsdale District Council Offices, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Offices. 1 related planning application.

Nithsdale District Council Offices, Dumfries

WRENN ID
dim-pediment-clover
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
Offices
OS grid reference
NX 970 762
Coordinates
55.07017, -3.61428
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Nithsdale District Council Offices in Dumfries, designed by James Carruthers of Glasgow in 1931, showcase an Edwardian Baroque style. The building is constructed of red ashlar stone, featuring channeling at the basement level and architraved windows. It stands two storeys high with an attic storey at the wall head and a railed basement. The façade consists of seven pilastered bays, with a shallow advanced and wider central entrance bay that includes a granite staircase adorned with wrought-iron lamp brackets. The entrance features a round-headed doorway and an arched doorpiece supported by blocked columns. The ground floor windows are corniced, while the second-floor windows, particularly the central tripartite ones, are highlighted by wide key-blocks. The main entablature has a blocked cornice, and the attic storey is distinguished by a band course that steps over the windows. The building is topped with corniced stacks and a slate roof, and it has tall rear ranges.

Local climate

Nithsdale District Council Offices, 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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