1-3 Academy Street, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. House.

1-3 Academy Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
tenth-oriel-blackthorn
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
House
OS grid reference
NX 971 763
Coordinates
55.07108, -3.61198
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1-3 Academy Street in Dumfries is a building dated 1907. It is a two-storey structure made of red sandstone, featuring a nearly symmetrical three-bay elevation with a central gable. The entrance has a square-columned porch topped with a concave lead roof. On the left side, there is a single-storey canted bay. The windows are mostly bipartite, with the central first-floor window being transomed and corniced, and small-paned upper sashes. The roof is broad-eaved and covered with slate, featuring straight skews and ball finials. The return gables each have a single central window on both floors.

Local climate

1-3 Academy 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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