Old Schoolhouse, Dundrennan is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Old Schoolhouse, Dundrennan
- WRENN ID
- twisted-quartz-twilight
- 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 747 476
- Coordinates
- 54.80842, -3.94981
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a school located in Dundrennan, dating from around 1800. It features a single-storey rectangular hall with a gable wall facing the street, accompanied by a two-storey, three-bay house to the left. The exterior is made of painted rubble with polished raised margins.
The hall has a gable wall that serves as the street elevation, featuring a square entrance porch topped with a cornice, block pediment, and simple acroteria. The entrance consists of double-leaf doors with an astragalled fanlight above and a blind oculus. On either side of the porch are single light architraved windows with modern glazing arranged in a 40-pane pattern, with top-hopper openings. The hall has four bays on its flanks and sandstone skews at the gable end, also with simple acroteria, and is topped with slate roofs.
The schoolhouse has a central doorway with a consoled lintel, leading to a recessed door with a fanlight. The windows are sash and case style, with 12 panes on the ground floor and 4 panes on the first floor. There is a two-storey wing at the rear featuring 12-pane glazing.
Local climate
Old Schoolhouse, Dundrennan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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