Cheese Loft, Mains Of Cairnbrock is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1994. Cheese loft. 1 related planning application.
Cheese Loft, Mains Of Cairnbrock
- WRENN ID
- blind-cupola-candle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1994
- Type
- Cheese loft
- OS grid reference
- NW 972 659
- Coordinates
- 54.94673, -5.16774
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cheese Loft at Mains of Cairnbrock is a two-storey cheese loft built in the late 19th century, forming the western end of a U-plan steading. The building is constructed of painted rubble and features projecting cills.
On the east elevation, there is an enlarged doorway to the right, with two window openings to the left and one to the left of centre at the ground floor. The first floor has four windows. The west elevation has five window openings at the ground floor and four on the first floor. The south elevation is gabled and blank. The north elevation is adjoined to a lower stable range.
Inside, the upper floor has a timber coombed ceiling, along with some original equipment and shelving. The window openings are partly glazed, featuring 6-pane glazing, and some are partly shuttered. There are louvred openings on the ground floor to the east, and several openings are boarded. The building has red sandstone coped skews, a granite dressed rubble gablehead stack with a red sandstone cope on the north side, grey slates, and a red sandstone ridge.
Local climate
Cheese Loft, Mains Of Cairnbrock 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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