Primary School, Thornhill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. School. 2 related planning applications.
Primary School, Thornhill
- WRENN ID
- blind-gateway-mallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NX 880 956
- Coordinates
- 55.24253, -3.76212
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Primary School in Thornhill, designed by architect Charles Howitt of the Drumlanrig estate, was built between 1864 and 1865. This single-storey T-plan school features a lower east wing and is situated on a slope with a basement at the west. The building is designed in a Tudor style, constructed from channelled, bull-faced pink ashlar with polished dressings, hood-moulds, and raised quoins.
The long south wall has Tudor-arched bipartite windows across four bays, while the west gable includes similar windows flanking a projecting chimney breast, positioned above depressed-arched basement openings. The smaller gabled east wing has gabled porches on the north and south sides, with a door that is now blocked. The north wing features a tripartite window in its gable, and there is a modern addition in the re-entrant angle. The school has a splayed base course, saw-toothed skews with gableted skew-putts, offset corniced stacks, and slate roofs adorned with cast-iron cresting.
Local climate
Primary School, Thornhill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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