Glebe Cottage, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, Dumfries is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981. Lodge.
Glebe Cottage, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-basalt-bramble
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- Type
- Lodge
- OS grid reference
- NX 977 756
- Coordinates
- 55.06472, -3.60266
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glebe Cottage, located at St Joseph's R.C. College on Craigs Road in Dumfries, dates from around 1840 and is designed in a Gothic style. This single-storey building with an attic is constructed from stugged and squared rubble, featuring ashlar dressings and hoodmoulds. The gable facing the street is painted and includes Tudor-arched windows above and on either side of a central square-headed door. The cottage has sash windows that were originally fitted with lying-panes. The northeast flank features a mullioned and transomed window, along with a modern door and window. The building has projecting eaves and an axial stack, with flues that have been cut down. It has a slate roof and a lean-to structure at the rear on the southeast side. Additionally, there is a rusticated doorway in the adjoining boundary wall.
Local climate
Glebe Cottage, St Joseph's R.C. College, Craigs Road, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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