Walled Garden, Balgray House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1988. Walled garden.
Walled Garden, Balgray House
- WRENN ID
- idle-garret-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1988
- Type
- Walled garden
- OS grid reference
- NY 140 863
- Coordinates
- 55.16397, -3.35123
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Balgray House is primarily from the early 19th century, although it is not a single construction. It is a roughly quadrangular area surrounded by walls made of rubble with ashlar coping. Most of these walls are lined with brick and feature ceramic tile banding. The eastern wall functions as a road embankment, while the low southern wall is topped with cast-iron railings and includes the main gate. There is also a pedestrian gate that has a pedimented gateway, which dates to around 1885. At the northern end, there is a slate-roofed lean-to that houses a boiler room and potting sheds. The garden also features asymmetrical glass house ranges with cast-iron framing made by Simpson & Farmer from Glasgow.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Balgray House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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