The Elms is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Manse.
The Elms
- WRENN ID
- upper-doorway-kestrel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NX 031 685
- Coordinates
- 54.9724, -5.07749
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Elms is a manse with an early 19th century core that was significantly enlarged in the later 19th century. It is a two-storey building, harled with painted margins, a base course, and quoin strips, featuring stop-chamfered arrises.
On the southeast elevation, the house has a three-bay layout. The broad gable end of the original house is to the left, with windows positioned to the right of a broad gablehead stack. The centre features a slightly recessed, taller entrance bay with a cornice above a deep-set doorway, which includes a two-leaf panelled door and a small-pane fanlight, along with a window above. To the right, there is a gabled outer bay with bipartite windows on each floor.
The northeast elevation shows the broad gable of the original house to the right, with a glazed door and a first-floor window to the left of the broad gablehead stack. There is a tall stair window in a recessed bay at the centre, and a gabled bay to the left with two narrow windows widely spaced on each floor, along with a small gablehead stack.
On the east elevation, there is a three-bay advanced gable to the right featuring a tripartite window at the ground floor and a bipartite window at the first floor. The centre and left bays each have single windows on both floors.
The west elevation displays the rear of the original house, which includes a later piend-roofed single-storey service projection at the centre. There is a swept-roofed dormer flanked by gabled dormers.
The building has modern glazing, grey slate roofing, ashlar skews, harled stacks, and polygonal cans. The interior was not seen in 1994.
Local climate
The Elms sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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