Ivybank, Millcroft Road, Creebridge, Newton Stewart is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. House.
Ivybank, Millcroft Road, Creebridge, Newton Stewart
- WRENN ID
- hollow-bracket-quill
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 411 657
- Coordinates
- 54.96105, -4.48232
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ivybank is a two-storey house located on a sloping site in Creebridge, Newton Stewart, and dates from before 1805. The house features a slightly lower wing attached to the west. The south elevation of the wing is harled, while the other elevations are made of painted rubble with painted raised margins and angle margins on the main block.
On the southeast elevation, the main block is positioned to the right, featuring a modern door located to the right of center within an advanced doorcase topped with a block pediment above the eaves. There is a window to the left of the door, and a window on the first floor of the wing, which is recessed to the left.
The east elevation, facing Creebridge, has a window at the center. The north elevation shows the main block to the left, with a door at the center, a window to the right of center, and a small window to the left at ground level. On the first floor, there are windows to the left and right of center. The wing, which is recessed to the right, has a door to the left and a window to the right on the first floor.
The west elevation has windows on both the left and right sides at ground level. The house features 4-pane glazing in sash and case windows, except for modern glazing on the west elevation. It has red sandstone coped skews, except on the southeast side, and painted gablehead stacks made of rubble on the east and west, with brick on the main block and wing. The roof is covered with graded grey slates and includes rooflights on both south pitches.
Additionally, there are cusped spearhead iron railings on the east side of the property.
Local climate
Ivybank, Millcroft Road, Creebridge, Newton Stewart 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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