Burns Hermitage, Friar's Carse is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Hermitage. 1 related planning application.
Burns Hermitage, Friar's Carse
- WRENN ID
- sacred-mortar-winter
- 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
- Hermitage
- OS grid reference
- NX 925 845
- Coordinates
- 55.14333, -3.6867
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Burns Hermitage, located in Friar's Carse, is a small, single-storey structure with a rectangular plan and gabled roof, dating from 1874, which is a restoration and re-facing of a hermitage originally built around 1790. The building is constructed of red sandstone rubble with polished dressings and features roll-moulded openings. The south wall has a door and a bipartite window, while the east gable has a single narrow window, all of which are shouldered lights with splayed cills. The gable has crow steps, and the south wall displays skewputts adorned with masonic motifs, one of which is uncarved. The structure has a small apex stack and is topped with a slate roof.
Inside, there is a segmental-arched fireplace on the west gable, with a corbel set in the wall above that bears a heraldic device. The hermitage is enclosed by plain cast-iron railings.
Local climate
Burns Hermitage, Friar's Carse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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