Corvisel House, Wigtown Road, Newton Stewart is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. 2 related planning applications.
Corvisel House, Wigtown Road, Newton Stewart
- WRENN ID
- eternal-chapel-rook
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Address
- Corvisel House, Wigtown Road, Newton Stewart, DG8 6AS
- OS grid reference
- NX 413 644
- Coordinates
- 54.94949, -4.47822
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Corsival House, located on Wigtown Road in Newton Stewart, dates from around 1830. It is a two-storey house with an attic and basement, featuring a symmetrical three-bay classical front. The walls are made of rubble with polished grey granite margins and rusticated quoins.
On the south elevation, there are steps with a simple iron balustrade leading to a Roman Doric doorpiece that is pedimented. This doorpiece contains double-leaf panelled doors and a fanlight. All the windows are sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern.
To the east, there is a single-storey flat-roofed harled wing that was added in 1945. The rear of the house has paired flights of steps leading to the basement door and features a box dormer. The windows are regularly spaced, all with 12-pane sashes.
Polished granite band courses run over the basement and at the eaves, along with a cornice and a blocking course. The piend and platform roof are covered with good graded slates, and there are rusticated coped wallhead stacks.
To the north, there is a large walled garden enclosed by a rubble wall with sandstone coping. The boundary includes coped rubble walls and quadrant walls along the road. At the entrance, there is a pair of sturdy rusticated granite gatepiers with simple iron gates.
Local climate
Corvisel House, Wigtown Road, Newton Stewart sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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