Walton Park Stables is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Walton Park Stables
- WRENN ID
- pitched-newel-sable
- 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 762 709
- Coordinates
- 55.01776, -3.93676
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dated 1817, Walton Park Stables are a symmetrically arranged stable block comprising four ranges around a cobbled courtyard. The construction is of squared rubble with some polished red sandstone detailing around the window margins and dovecot.
The east elevation features a three-stage gabled centre, along with single-storey and attic gabled end bays linked by single-storey ranges. Depressed-arch cart entrances are present throughout, with the eastern range converted into a dwelling, featuring windows and French doors set within the arches. The central gabled bay provides a pend entrance to the courtyard, with a loft and dovecot above. The dovecot is highlighted by a pointed-arch red sandstone panel pierced with flight-holes. The range to the right of the pend has also been converted to domestic use, with a tripartite glazed door squaring off the original cart-arch. Oval sandstone tablets inscribed "FAC ET SPERA 1817" are set into the gable ends.
The west range incorporates an unroofed horsemill, which was formerly a mill and barn.
A laundry, dating from around 1910, is located on the north side and includes a large brick kiln with cast-iron clothes dryers. The north and east ranges originally housed stabling and barn storage.
A large walled garden is situated to the west of the house, enclosed by coped rubble walls.
The stables form a group of buildings with group value alongside Walton Park and Walton Park Lodge.
Local climate
Walton Park Stables sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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