Sheepfold, Hayknowes Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Former bacon factory.
Sheepfold, Hayknowes Farm
- WRENN ID
- patient-corridor-tallow
- 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
- Type
- Former bacon factory
- OS grid reference
- NY 173 655
- Coordinates
- 54.97759, -3.29228
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Sheepfold at Hayknowes Farm is an earlier 19th-century building that once served as a bacon processing plant. It features a long rectangular gabled design, standing two storeys high with seven bays along its long elevations. The structure is built from rubble with ashlar dressings and is entirely whitewashed. All openings are flat-headed, with square windows on the first floor. Most windows are barred and have original sliding timber shutters fitted to the inner walls. A lean-to has been added to the west gable.
The south elevation faces the roadside and includes a central cartway with boarded doors, another cartway on the left with a sliding door, and a first-floor door above with a hoist over it. The north elevation has two blocked ground floor slits, while the rest of the elevation features windows throughout. The roof is covered with gabled slates, and there are concrete footings from an adjoining structure to the east.
Inside, the building has tiers of wall recesses designed to accommodate timber meat-hanging frames, with some framing still visible at the east end. The ground floor shutters slide horizontally, while the first-floor shutters slide upwards to open.
Local climate
Sheepfold, Hayknowes Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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