Garden House, Riddingwood House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Garden House, Riddingwood House
- WRENN ID
- iron-spandrel-finch
- Grade
- B
- 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
- NX 986 835
- Coordinates
- 55.13633, -3.59119
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier or mid-19th century garden house, a small, square structure with castellated details, situated above Park Burn on a sloping and terraced west bank. It is built of rubble with stugged red ashlar dressings. The east face features a door, and the north face has a window, both positioned below blind panels. Corbelled bartizans rise above the angles of the building. The monopitch roof is hidden behind parapets and slopes downwards towards the west, with fish-scale banding. A mock gun port is located next to a rubble-built terrace wall to the north. The garden house may have been designed by Walter Newall, who also designed Riddingwood House.
Local climate
Garden House, Riddingwood House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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