Wellbank is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1989. House. 5 related planning applications.
Wellbank
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-bastion-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1989
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wellbank, DD5 3PN
- OS grid reference
- NO 465 374
- Coordinates
- 56.52588, -2.86983
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wellbank is a farmhouse dated 1854, featuring two storeys and a three-bay rectangular design, with a single-storey service wing at the rear. The building has lying-pane sash and case glazing throughout, constructed from rubble masonry with ashlar dressings and a slate roof.
On the south elevation, there is a central door with a rebated doorpiece and pediment, along with a plain transom light. The ground floor has two windows, while the first floor has three, all with chamfered margins and slightly advanced cills, topped by an eaves cornice.
The east and west gables each have two windows on both the ground and first floors, with shouldered and coped stacks.
The north elevation features a border glazed and coloured stair window, along with the single-storey service wing that has a gable and a brick-heightened stack. The west elevation of the service wing has three barred windows. There is an adjoining walled yard to the east with gates to the north and east, which are dated 1854 at the top centre of the east wall.
Additionally, there is a bothy located to the northeast of the house, which has a rectangular plan, constructed from rubble with a piend slate roof.
Local climate
Wellbank receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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