Abbey House, Glenluce Abbey is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Manse.
Abbey House, Glenluce Abbey
- WRENN ID
- dark-doorway-moss
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Manse
- OS grid reference
- NX 184 586
- Coordinates
- 54.88995, -4.83216
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Abbey House, located at Glenluce Abbey, dates from around 1775 and was remodelled in 1830. It is a two-storey, three-bay former manse constructed of lightly painted rubble with raised ashlar margins and granite quoins.
On the south elevation, there is a recessed doorcase at the center featuring a boarded door and a plate glass fanlight. The windows are regularly spaced, except for a modern flat-roofed rendered bay window at the ground level in the bay to the right.
The east elevation is blank.
The north elevation has a lower gabled jamb attached to the right. It features a stair window at the center, with small windows flanking to the left on each floor. There is a window at both the ground and first floors in the bay to the left. The right side has a gabled jamb, with a door to the left and a window to the right leading to the east return, which has a modern box dormer window above. There are two windows on the west return, with a small window placed to the outer right. A lower half-piended outbuilding is attached to the north, with a door facing east.
The west elevation has two paired windows at the center on both the ground and first floors, and a small window to the left at the ground floor. The west return has a jamb to the left. The windows are 12-pane glazing in sash and case style. The building features coped skews, gablehead stacks to the east and west, and a stack on the jamb to the north. The roof is covered with slightly graded grey slates and has octagonal cans.
The boundary walls to the south are made of drystone rubble.
Local climate
Abbey House, Glenluce Abbey sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,310 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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