Durhamhill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. 2 related planning applications.

Durhamhill

WRENN ID
shadowed-merlon-vetch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1990
OS grid reference
NX 791 704
Coordinates
55.01373, -3.8919
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Durhamhill is a circa 1820 house built for the Reverend David Lamont. It is a three-storey, three-bay symmetrical building. The walls are modern roughcast, with rusticated quoins and polished raised margins. A Roman-Doric column arrangement supports a pediment over a tripartite doorpiece. All windows are tripartite, with four panes of glass to the ground and first floors, and small-pane glazing to the second floor. A moulded eaves cornice runs around the house. The rear elevation features sash and case windows with small-pane glazing. The roofs are tall and hipped, covered with slate.

Flanking the house are symmetrical, detached, single-storey and attic rubble-built steading buildings. These also have rusticated quoins and polished margins. A central tall, round-arched cart entrance, featuring an oculus above, is flanked by doors; most of these openings are now blocked. The steading to the west is linked to the main house by a curved coped rubble wall, painted.

The village of Kirkpatrick-Durham was largely founded by Reverend David Lamont around 1785. Durhamhill is notable for the proportions of the farmhouse and the use of tripartite windows on all floors.

Local climate

Durhamhill 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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