Former Stables, Torwood House is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1993. Stables.
Former Stables, Torwood House
- WRENN ID
- roaming-mortar-summer
- 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
- Stables
- OS grid reference
- NX 244 638
- Coordinates
- 54.93843, -4.7425
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former stables of Torwood House date from the later 19th century and are designed in a single-storey, U-plan layout. The building is constructed of rubble.
The stables feature deep yellow brick arch rings and have a gabled roof covered with small grey slates. The western range remains in its original condition, although it has undergone partial reconstruction, with the roofs removed from the northern and eastern ranges, which now have flat roofs.
In the western range, there is a gabled bay at the center that includes a round-arched carriage pend entrance on the west side. This gabled pend bay is mirrored in the courtyard to the east, featuring a round-arch topped with a doocot that has three tiers of flight-holes, which has been reconstructed. On either side of the pend entrance are depressed-arched carriage arches.
The northern range has a round-arched pend entrance, which is surmounted by the remains of three tiers of flight-holes on the south side, with depressed-arched carriage arches flanking it on the left and right.
Local climate
Former Stables, Torwood House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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