Gate House, Rowantree House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. House.
Gate House, Rowantree House
- WRENN ID
- lost-rampart-rain
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 902 962
- Coordinates
- 55.24831, -3.72768
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gate House at Rowantree House, designed by architect William L. Moffat and dated 1855, was originally a poorhouse and is now divided into private houses. This building features two storeys and has eleven articulated bays arranged in a pattern of 1-3-1-1-1-3-1. A detached single-storey gatehouse with three bays is treated in a similar style.
The long, symmetrical south elevation includes a three-bay inner range with an advanced and gabled inner bay for the entrance, while the gabled outer bays are connected by three-bay ranges, each featuring a door with sidelights. The exterior is finished in whitewashed, stugged, squared, and snecked rubble, with contrasting painted ashlar long and short worked dressings. The doors are two-centre arched, and there are 12-pane sash windows, with the inner and outer ground floor having bipartite arrangements. The building has end stacks on offset bases and straight skews.
The rear (north) elevation is similarly articulated, showcasing outshots, outbuildings, and rubble-walled yards, with four-bay flanks. The gatehouse includes a datestone in the gable head above the central pend, and the roofs are slated.
Local climate
Gate House, Rowantree House 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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