Manse, Keir Mill is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 1 related planning application.
Manse, Keir Mill
- WRENN ID
- roaming-facade-snow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Address
- Manse, Keir Mill, DG3 4DF
- OS grid reference
- NX 861 932
- Coordinates
- 55.21996, -3.79075
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a two-storey, three-bay former manse, built between 1777 and 1778. Later dates, 1828, 1870, and 1965, are recorded on a modern door lintel. The building is situated on a slope, incorporating a basement to the north-east. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, all now painted, with contrasting margins.
The south-west elevation has been rebuilt. It features a central doorway, 12-pane sash windows, a band course separating the floors, a cornice, a blocking course, and end stacks built on ramped plinths. The roof is piended and platformed, covered with graded slates. The north-east elevation also has three bays and includes two basement doors and a single dormer with a finial and ornamental bargeboards.
In 1828, the original wings were removed, and an addition was made to the east, possibly designed by John Smallwood, the architect at Drumlanrig. This addition has since been removed. Simple ashlar gatepiers, curved quadrant walls with coping, and an outbuilding to the south complete the property.
Local climate
Manse, Keir Mill 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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- 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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