Waterbeck House, Waterbeck is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988. 1 related planning application.
Waterbeck House, Waterbeck
- WRENN ID
- dusted-chamber-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- Address
- Waterbeck House, Waterbeck, DG11 3EY
- OS grid reference
- NY 246 775
- Coordinates
- 55.08708, -3.18154
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Post Office in Waterbeck is a mid-19th century, two-storey houseblock featuring three bays on the left side for a shop and three bays on the right for a house. The house has projecting mullioned bays at ground level. The building is constructed from ashlar stone with painted margins and includes a band course between the floors, an eaves course, and a cornice. It has sash windows, except for the plate glass shop windows, and features end stacks and two small gabled dormers on the right side. The roof is slated, and the building has a deep plan with a small iron-railed front garden to the right. There is also a rear wing.
Local climate
Waterbeck House, Waterbeck sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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