Flowerbank, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1993. House.

Flowerbank, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1993
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 411 659
Coordinates
54.96307, -4.48343
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Flowerbank is a house built around 1793, with later alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure made of rubble, with the northern elevation painted. The building features painted raised margins and angle margins, along with red sandstone quoins at the corners and stacks. There is a base course on the southern side. To the north, there is a two-storey gabled wing that has been raised in brick from a single-storey rubble structure.

On the southern elevation, there is a central pedimented doorpiece with engaged columns and a modern door. The outer bays at ground floor have later flat-roofed timber canted windows. The first floor has regularly spaced windows, with a smaller window in the center.

The eastern elevation facing Millcroft Road is blank. The western elevation has regularly spaced windows on both the ground and first floors, with a smaller window on the left at ground floor. The wing to the north is advanced to the left.

The northern elevation has a window on both the ground and first floors to the left, with the wing attached to the center and right. This wing, raised from a single storey in brick, has a window at ground floor to the left, and small windows on both the left and right at the first floor. There is a door and three windows at ground floor and three windows at first floor on the northern side. The western gable is blank, while there are windows at ground and first floors on the southern side.

The house features sash and case windows with a variety of glazing, including plate glass on the southern elevation, and 4-pane, 8-pane, and 12-pane windows. There are three slate-hung piended dormer windows on the southern pitch, canted to the left and right, with a small one in the center. The gable has red sandstone coped skews, gablehead stacks, and is covered with grey slates and octagonal cans.

The property also includes quadrant and boundary walls with a rubble boundary wall topped with semicircular ashlar coping, and rock-faced granite coping at the gateway. Square granite gatepiers with rock-faced capping support wooden gates.

Local climate

Flowerbank, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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