Brocklehirst House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 April 1997. House.
Brocklehirst House
- WRENN ID
- rooted-pavement-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1997
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NY 051 739
- Coordinates
- 55.05113, -3.48645
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Brocklehirst House is a later 19th-century, 2-storey house that was re-modelled and extended in the early 20th century. It features an irregular plan and an Italianate entrance tower. The building is constructed of coursed whinstone rubble with contrasting polished ashlar dressings. Notable architectural details include overhanging eaves, decorative pierced bargeboards, and raised window surrounds.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has nine bays and includes a three-stage entrance tower. The ground level features an advanced round-arched, pilastered, and balustraded open porch with a timber panelled door and a fanlight above. The second stage has a bipartite window, while the third stage is adorned with three round-headed windows on all faces. The outer bays are advanced gabled, and there is a bay to the left of centre. Additionally, there is a former segmental-arched doorway that has been converted into a window in the penultimate bay to the left.
The house has 2-pane timber sash and case windows, grey slate roofs, corniced ridge stacks, and moulded octagonal chimney cans. There are three flights of stone steps leading from the lawn to the entrance, aligned with the entrance itself.
Local climate
Brocklehirst House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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