Carco is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.

Carco

WRENN ID
spare-buttress-wren
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
OS grid reference
NS 787 139
Coordinates
55.40448, -3.9161
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an earlier 19th-century single-storey, three-bay cottage that was raised to two storeys in 1889. It is accompanied by a courtyard steading to the rear.

The farmhouse is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings. The south elevation features a central gabled porch, now with a door on its side. There are single four-pane sash windows in the outer bays, with hoodmoulding at ground floor level. Gable dormer heads are above the windows, featuring patterned bargeboards and spike finials. The eaves project deeply, and corniced end stacks rise from the roof, which is covered in slate.

To the rear (north) is a courtyard steading, consisting of a single-storey, L-shaped range connected to the rear wing of the farmhouse, and a detached, tall barn to the east. The barn has two segmental-arched cart openings and three square loft openings facing the courtyard, with a door at each level near the south gable. The steading is rubble-built with ashlar dressings, but the south gable of the barn was rebuilt in brick and all the buildings are painted. A cobbled courtyard is situated within the steading. The barn has a modern asbestos roof, while the remainder of the steading is roofed with graded slates. Copies of drawings from 1889 are held in the National Records of Scotland.

Local climate

Carco sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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