Western Section, Cartshed, Beckfoot is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 September 1987.
Western Section, Cartshed, Beckfoot
- WRENN ID
- inner-steel-wren
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1987
- OS grid reference
- NY 217 656
- Coordinates
- 54.97945, -3.22469
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Northern Section of the Cartshed at Beckfoot is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse with a basement, located at the southeast end of a courtyard steading, featuring gatepiers at the southwest. The house is constructed of squared red rubble coursers with ashlar dressings and painted margins. It has a nearly full-height shallow west wing, which is raised in brick and also painted. Both the north (courtyard) and south elevations have a central door; the south door has a pedimented doorpiece with engaged Roman Doric columns and a modern door, while the north door is behind a glazed porch, with steps leading down to a basement door alongside. Most windows are sash style with a 12-pane glazing pattern. There is a round-headed, keystoned tall stair window on the east flank that features intersecting tracery. The house has end stacks and a piended roof covered with graded slates. A small garden with iron railings is present in the courtyard.
Inside, there are some pilastered doorcases and a depressed-arched screen leading to the stairs.
The gatepiers, which are contemporary with the house, consist of two chamfered square painted ashlar piers with projecting caps and a cavetto cornice, along with wrought-iron gates.
The steading is L-shaped, with walls that enclose the courtyard on the south and east, both linked to the house. It is built of rubble with ashlar dressings, all whitewashed. The west range, which is a barn, was probably built in the second half of the 18th century and is two-storey with an upper loft storey. It has a single bay cartshed with keystoned flat arches and a forestair built against the courtyard's south wall. The east gable features a triangular dovecote, and there is a modern lean-to addition to the court. The roof is also covered with graded slates. The stable in the altered and heightened north range has a corrugated roof.
Local climate
Western Section, Cartshed, Beckfoot sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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