Smithy, Courthill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 1 related planning application.
Smithy, Courthill
- WRENN ID
- grey-sentry-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 855 934
- Coordinates
- 55.22232, -3.80025
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This early 19th century smithy is situated at Courthill. Originally a two-storey, three-bay building, it is set on a slope with a basement on the east side. A modern two-bay addition is present to the west gable. The building was the home and workshop of Kirkpatrick MacMillan, inventor of the pedal bicycle.
The south elevation features an advanced and gabled entrance bay. A flight of steps leads to a first-floor door located in the re-entrant angle on the left. There are four-pane sash windows, and ground-level stacks. The roof is covered with uniform slates. A hand-over pump is positioned at the east gable, with two plaques above a window and loft light.
The original smithy has a wide, two-leaf door on the east side, alongside a small-paned window, wall-head stacks, and a high, piended roof. A floor window to the right has small panes. Straight skews run along the roofline. The addition to the west gable is constructed of painted brick.
Local climate
Smithy, Courthill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- 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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