Garden Building, Overton House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 February 1990.
Garden Building, Overton House
- WRENN ID
- buried-oriel-dawn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1990
- OS grid reference
- NX 634 781
- Coordinates
- 55.07926, -4.14117
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an earlier 19th-century octagonal garden building situated on sloping ground, likely originally a toolshed with a dovecot positioned above. The structure is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings. The upper stage features a door with a keystoned octagonal oculus above it. A further opening on the rear face, also to the upper stage, is located at a higher ground level. There are square flight-hole openings under the eaves, two to each face, each containing four small panes of glass. The roof is covered in grey slates and is polygonal in shape. The garden building is situated within the gardens of Overton House (which is not included in current listings), and its design suggests it functioned as a toolshed rather than a summerhouse. The interior, which was not inspected in 1989, requires examination to confirm whether the building ever served as a dovecot.
Local climate
Garden Building, Overton House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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