Kirkmabreck 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.
Kirkmabreck
- WRENN ID
- knotted-finial-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 099 480
- Coordinates
- 54.79135, -4.95756
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier 19th-century farmhouse accompanied by a farm cottage and steading range located to the northwest. The farmhouse itself is a 2-story, 3-bay structure. It is harled, while the cottage and steading are built of painted rubble.
The northeast (entrance) elevation features a timber and glass door set within a recessed central bay, topped with a letterbox fanlight. There is a single window above the door on the first floor, and single windows in the flanking bays at both ground and first floor levels.
The northwest side elevation is 7 bays wide, arranged as a group of 1-1-5. An advanced bay to the outer left has a single window at ground level. A porch with a single window aligned above it sits in the penultimate bay to the left. A timber and glass door is positioned in the re-entrant angle. Timber doors, including a 2-leaf sliding door to the right, are found in the outer left and right bays beyond the 5-bay section. The first floor of the 5-bay section features single windows with louvred lower halves. Additional single windows are located at ground and first floor of the two central bays, at ground floor to the outer left, and at both ground and first floor to the outer right. A louvred cupola rises from the roof.
The southwest (rear) elevation is 4 bays wide, grouped 1-3. A single opening with a louvred lower half is at first floor level to the gable end of the 2-story range. A single-story attached range incorporates three entrances, one located to the outer right, which is double-width.
The southeast side elevation is 6 bays wide, arranged as a group of 5-1. Four single windows are at ground level, followed by five single windows at first floor, all with louvred lower halves. A single window breaks the eaves to form a gable in the penultimate bay to the right. A single window and timber door are found on the re-entrant angle to the left.
The farm cottage is a 2-story, 3-bay structure with single-story wings flanking. The windows have painted margins, and a recessed timber and glass door is centrally located, accompanied by a small letterbox fanlight. Flanking the door are single ground and first floor windows; the first-floor windows break the eaves to form a piended dormer. A timber door and a single window feature in the single-story wing to the outer left.
The cottage has plate glass timber sash and case windows. The buildings are roofed with grey slate, with apex, wallhead, and gablehead stacks, topped with circular cans.
The steading is an irregular arrangement of ranges, including single and 2-story blocks, featuring square and segmental-arched openings and forestairs.
The interior of the farmhouse was not inspected in 1999.
Painted rubble wingwalls form the entrance to the farmhouse, and an iron gate marks the boundary.
Local climate
Kirkmabreck 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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