Midsteeple Quarter granted Listed Building Consent for The Press

We are delighted to announce Midsteeple Quarter has been granted Listed Building Consent for The Press (117 High Street). Listed building consent is the mechanism by which planning authorities ensure that any changes to listed buildings are appropriate and sympathetic to their character. It helps to protect what is a rare and unique building. 

This means we will now be able to carry out the appropriate work in the building to ensure it is in safe and working order for potential new tenants and users of the building. 

The Listed Building Consent will allow us to carry out the following work:

• Stone cleaning of the front elevation of the building;

• Reinstallation of the sky lights to allow natural light into the ground floor of the building;

• Removal of the modern internal stud partition walls; 

• Re-open the access doors to the rear of the building. 

We are incredibly pleased about this news, as we now have the formal consent in place to allow us to carry forward our work and the future vision of Midsteeple Quarter. We are in discussions with an exciting social enterprise to occupy the ground floor of the building to bring a new retail concept to Dumfries later this year.

The former Dinwiddies building, 117 High Street has a rich and wonderful history and has been an important building on the High Street in the past, and we are delighted at the decision made that will allow us to carry out the work in a way that recognises the history and heritage of the building.

Image from Old Dumfries Facebook Group.