Limekilns is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Farmhouse.
Limekilns
- WRENN ID
- iron-chimney-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 172 693
- Coordinates
- 55.01168, -3.29595
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Limekilns is an earlier 18th century symmetrical two-storey, five-bay house featuring a sunk basement. An earlier 19th century porch has been added to the west, and there is a full-height wing to the east that dates from the early 20th century. A single-storey steading range, which is now part of the domestic space, adjoins the south gable.
The exterior is harled with painted ashlar margins and chamfered reveals, which are deeply chamfered on the west side. The windows have modern glazing with imitation sashes, and there is a basement light at the south end.
On the west elevation, there is a flat-roofed, painted ashlar wide central porch with broad clasping pilasters and a door located in the re-entrant angle. The porch features a splayed base course, a lintel/eaves course, a moulded cornice, straight skews, rebuilt brick end stacks, and a slate roof. The east elevation, which was originally similar, has four bays instead of five, with a central wing that includes a two-bay gable and an apex stack topped with a wide cornice.
A rubble-built wall encloses the garden to the east and west, with iron gates on the west wall featuring spiked rails.
Local climate
Limekilns sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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