Stable Block, Robgill Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Stable block.
Stable Block, Robgill Tower
- WRENN ID
- rooted-zinc-holly
- 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
- Stable block
- OS grid reference
- NY 247 716
- Coordinates
- 55.03323, -3.1793
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Stable Block at Robgill Tower, built in the later 19th century, is a single-storey structure arranged in a U-shape around a courtyard, featuring a two-storey central tower. The building is constructed from stugged and snecked red ashlar with polished dressings and bull-faced quoins. The tower includes a round-headed pend that is roll-moulded towards the courtyard, along with angle buttresses and stepped string moulding beneath the upper window. There is a dummy gun loop, and the parapet is corbelled and crenellated, raised above one angle to give the appearance of a cap house. A single dormer is located next to the tower. The stable block has square-headed openings, cart-garage openings with ornamental hinges, and small-paned windows. The northern wing gable contains former kennels, while the west wall has modern sliding doors, and there is a glass-house on the south wall of the south wing. The roof is covered with graded slates. The courtyard is enclosed on the east side by quadrant walls that feature ball-finialled square gatepiers.
Local climate
Stable Block, Robgill Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings