Kennels, Ravenstone Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. 1 related planning application.
Kennels, Ravenstone Castle
- WRENN ID
- south-soffit-ivy
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NX 409 439
- Coordinates
- 54.76479, -4.47397
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These kennels, dating from the earlier 19th century, are accompanied by a two-stage castellated folly. The buildings are constructed of rubble.
The kennels are a single-storey, three-bay gabled structure with a central door featuring a letterbox fanlight, and windows on either side. A lower, two-bay block is recessed slightly to the left, with a door to the right, and a roofless section to the left which has a door on its end return gable. The doors are boarded, and there are gablehead stacks. Twelve-pane sash and case windows are present. The roof is covered with graded slates.
To the right of the kennels stands a two-stage tower folly, set against the right return gable. It features angle buttresses on its outer elevation, a blocked pointed arch doorway, a lancet window above, and a dividing string course. The wallhead is crenellated and in a ruinous state.
A rubble-walled kennel run extends to the left and includes a brick parapet on one side (with railings now removed). A wrought iron gate is also present.
Local climate
Kennels, Ravenstone Castle 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 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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