Slatehole is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Slatehole
- WRENN ID
- dusk-brass-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 744 600
- Coordinates
- 54.91976, -3.9597
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Slatehole is an early 18th century L-shaped building comprising a dwelling house to the west elevation, and a barn and storage area to the east. It is built on a steeply sloping site. The construction uses random rubble walling with a boulder base, and the walls are painted or rendered. The west elevation is single-storey on the right-hand side, dropping to two storeys at the left gable, reflecting the site's slope. Originally two single-storey cottages, the building has been combined, with a former second door now replaced by a window. Windows are bipartite or single-light plate glass sashes. The east elevation features a pebble-dashed barn adjoining the two-storey gable of a modern cottage. The entire building has recently been re-roofed with slate. A modern cottage to the east is not listed.
Local climate
Slatehole 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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