Low Clanyard is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Farmhouse.
Low Clanyard
- WRENN ID
- sheer-frieze-ochre
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 107 374
- Coordinates
- 54.69613, -4.93875
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Low Clanyard is a late 18th century, two-storey, four-bay farmhouse with an L-plan layout at the rear, which includes a single-storey wing. The building is constructed of painted rubble.
On the north elevation, there is a later gabled bay that is advanced to the left of centre, featuring a modern door to the left on the east return and windows on both floors to the west. The elevation has painted brick margins and quoins, with regularly spaced windows in the remaining bays.
The east elevation has a gabled section to the right, which includes a blocked window at the centre of the ground floor. To the left, there is a single-storey wing with a window to the right and an advanced section to the left that has a catslide roof.
On the south elevation, a piended stair block is slightly advanced to the right of centre, with a window on the first floor. The roof pitch sweeps low to the left of the stair block. There is a wing adjoined to the right, featuring two enlarged windows on the west return, along with painted brick lean-to sheds attached to the south gable.
The west elevation is gabled and blank. The glazing is mainly modern, but there are sash and case windows at the ground floor in two bays on the right of the north elevation, with a 12-pane window in the bay to the right of centre and a 9-pane window in the outer right bay. The building has painted coped skews and painted rubble stacks, including gablehead stacks on the east and west, a ridge stack that is off-centre to the west, and a tall wallhead stack to the right on the south elevation, with the wing below it. The roof is covered with grey slates on the north and east pitches and purple slates on the south and west pitches, with a rooflight on the left of the south pitch and several octagonal cans. The modern tile ridging completes the roof.
In the garden, there is a red sandstone ashlar baluster, which may have once supported a sundial.
Local climate
Low Clanyard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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