Holmhead is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. 1 related planning application.
Holmhead
- WRENN ID
- noble-casement-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Address
- Holmhead, DG7 3DT
- OS grid reference
- NX 767 760
- Coordinates
- 55.06348, -3.93194
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holmhead is an earlier 19th-century house, constructed with a symmetrical design and featuring a single-storey, piended-roofed wing to the west. The exterior is of painted rubble, accentuated with polished stone margins and quoins. A central, gabled timber porch has been added. Windows are single-light, sash and case with 12-pane glazing. Two canted dormers, each topped with spike finials, project from the attics. The rear elevation mirrors the front, with a prominent, full-height stair tower centrally placed and capped with a conical roof. The roof is slate, with tall, corniced wallhead stacks. The house appears on the 1854 Ordnance Survey map.
Local climate
Holmhead 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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