Knocknalling Stables is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990.

Knocknalling Stables

WRENN ID
buried-merlon-ebony
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 April 1990
OS grid reference
NX 597 848
Coordinates
55.13803, -4.20248
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

A group of 19th-century farm buildings form opposite sides of a rectangular courtyard to the north of Knocknalling House.

The south range is likely from the earlier to mid-19th century and is a single-storey structure that has been much altered. To the left is a taller single-storey section with square-headed dormers to an attic, originally a coach house. It features cart entrances, some of which are now blocked, and others contain tripartite windows with small panes.

The north range is from the later 19th century and retains its original character. It is built of rubble walls with granite rusticated quoins and bull-faced granite jambs. The ground floor has five vehicle entrances. First-floor windows are four-pane sash and case windows, with ball-finialled triangular pedimented dormer heads. At the east end, a tall four-stage square tower rises, with a pointed arch entrance, bipartite windows to the second stage, and a clock face on the third. The top stage is tall and blind, corbelled out and covered with a pyramid slate roof. Slate roofs are present throughout, along with an axial stack featuring individual granite flues.

A pair of ball-finialled gate piers mark the east entrance to the courtyard. The stables form a group of historic interest with Knocknalling Barn and Knocknalling House.

Local climate

Knocknalling Stables sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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