Half Way House is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972.
Half Way House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-zinc-ash
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- OS grid reference
- NX 305 616
- Coordinates
- 54.92061, -4.64538
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a circa 1840 house, formerly an inn, with a detached barn nearby. The main house is a two-storey, symmetrical building with three bays across the front, accompanied by a single-storey wing extending to the right. Constructed of painted rubble with raised painted cills, the front features a central, gabled, single-storey porch. This porch is flanked by single windows on the ground and first floors. The first-floor windows are set within gablets. All windows are sash and case, with 12 panes of glazing. The single-storey wing has a blank front elevation, but to the rear, it features a door flanked by 12-pane windows and a loft door in the gablehead. The roof is slate, with bracketed eaves to the gablets. The building has end skews, corniced end stacks topped with tall, individual ashlar cans. The name "Half Way House" is displayed above the front door. The detached barn is rectangular and stands close to the house on the left.
Local climate
Half Way House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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