30 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. Commercial building.

30 Academy Street, Dumfries

WRENN ID
ragged-jamb-wagtail
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 building
OS grid reference
NX 972 763
Coordinates
55.07125, -3.61092
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

30 Academy Street in Dumfries is an early 19th-century building that has been remodeled on the ground floor to feature a notable Victorian shop front. This shop front includes cast-iron columns, pilasters, and a fascia. The building consists of two storeys with an attic and has three bays. It is constructed from painted droved ashlar and features an eaves band. The windows are plate glass sashes, and there are two canted dormers along with end stacks. The roof is covered with slate.

Local climate

30 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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