Kirkconnell Lea is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Villa. 1 related planning application.

Kirkconnell Lea

WRENN ID
fallow-pinnacle-blackthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
Type
Villa
Address
Kirkconnell Lea, DG1 4RG
OS grid reference
NY 002 669
Coordinates
54.98691, -3.56031
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kirkconnell Lea is a large villa built around 1870, featuring two storeys and asymmetrical elevations with advanced gables. The exterior is constructed of bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings, strings, corbelling, roll-mouldings, and margins. The villa showcases a variety of window openings, including round, segmental, and square-headed designs, which can be found singly or grouped, with some being canted or in square projections.

An octagonal turret, either full-height or corbelled at the outer angles, is topped with a corbel table at the eaves and has a facetted slate roof with a flat leaded cap. The north-facing gable includes a gabled porch in the east re-entrant angle and a west re-entrant turret entrance, which features cast-iron guards in front of first-floor round-arched windows. The twin gables of the lower service range face east and are complemented by bracketed eaves, simple barge-boards and framing, corniced stacks, and slate roofs.

The property is accessed through square red ashlar gatepiers that are linked by low quadrant walls, with wrought iron gates and railings completing the entrance.

Local climate

Kirkconnell Lea sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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  10. Gatepiers, Kirkconnel House Grade C 2.6 km