West Range, Courtyard Block, Holmhill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.

West Range, Courtyard Block, Holmhill

WRENN ID
south-loft-spring
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
OS grid reference
NX 871 953
Coordinates
55.23969, -3.77638
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

East Range, Courtyard Block, Holmhill was built between 1827 and 1828, with some alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay house featuring pedimented lower flanking wings and courtyard ranges at the rear (north). The house was heightened by three masonry courses, likely in the mid-19th century. Originally, the wings were symmetrical, but the east wing is now two storeys, having been heightened sympathetically. The exterior is finished in painted rubble with ashlar dressings.

On the south elevation, there is a central square porch, 12-pane sash windows, end stacks, and a shallow-pitched piended roof. Each advanced wing has a single window set in a shallow recessed round-arched panel. At the rear, low lean-tos connect a deep stair turret with the wings.

Inside, the front ground floor rooms feature good chimneypieces; the west room has a Doric-columned chimneypiece, while the other has a Vitruvian-scrolled frieze. There are two parallel single-storey courtyard blocks with doors and square-headed cart openings, a single axial stack, and roof ventilators. The block to the west includes a dovecot in the south gable and a wall-head dormer to the west, with a rubble-built wall to the north. All roofs are slated.

Local climate

West Range, Courtyard Block, Holmhill 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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