Schoolhouse, Mahaar School is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Schoolhouse.
Schoolhouse, Mahaar School
- WRENN ID
- young-window-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Schoolhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 017 701
- Coordinates
- 54.98655, -5.0999
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Mahaar School, built around 1819, consists of a former school and an adjoining schoolhouse, now combined into one dwelling. This single-storey building features an attic and has a three-bay house connected to a five-bay school, creating a long range. The exterior is made of painted rubble with painted brick dressings, including long and short quoins and margins on the schoolhouse porch and the left porch of the school.
On the south elevation, the three-bay schoolhouse is on the right, while the five-bay school is on the left. The schoolhouse has a square stone porch at the centre, adorned with a dentil course, cornice, and blocking course. There is a door on the left side and a window facing south, with additional windows in the outer bays and gabled dormer windows above them.
The school features a square stone porch in the outer left bay, also with a dentil course and blocking course, and a door facing south. There is a gabled stone porch to the right of centre, topped with a ball finial, along with a window to the right return, which has been reduced from a doorway, and a window facing south. Each remaining bay has a window.
The east elevation includes two lower gabled additions on the left and right, with the left addition featuring a window facing south and a flat-roofed porch on the east gable.
On the west elevation, there is a gable on the right, with a brick wall adjoining to the left and a sliding machinery door on the right. A later piended addition to the left has painted brick dressings, with windows on both sides and a tall off-set wallhead stack in between.
The north elevation is L-shaped due to the piended addition on the right, which has a gabled addition and a further flat-roofed addition in the re-entrant angle.
The windows are sash and case, with a variety of glazing, including 6-pane windows for the school, as well as some 2-pane and 12-pane windows. The building features red sandstone coped skews, gablehead stacks on the east and west, and a ridge between the school and the schoolhouse, all covered with grey slates and topped with octagonal cans.
A rubble boundary wall surrounds the schoolhouse to the south, featuring a pair of rubble conical-capped drum gatepiers.
Local climate
Schoolhouse, Mahaar School 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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