West And North Ranges, Farmsteading, The Knowe is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
West And North Ranges, Farmsteading, The Knowe
- WRENN ID
- sunken-hinge-curlew
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NS 718 127
- Coordinates
- 55.39178, -4.02545
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Knowe comprises an earlier 19th century farmhouse with associated ranges forming a farmstead around a cobbled courtyard. The farmhouse is a two-storey, three-bay structure built of squared rubble with ashlar dressings. The east elevation features a depressed-arched doorway within a central gabled ashlar porch, with all openings having hood moulds. The windows are mostly sash windows with 12-pane glazing, with one casement window. Other details include saw-toothed skews, corniced end stacks, and a single deeply-recessed bay on the rear range. The rear, or west, elevation is asymmetrical.
The steading consists of three ranges arranged in a U-plan. The west range is a tall barn with two segmental-arched cartways, one partially blocked, with external doors at each level and a modern forestair. The north range features axial roof ventilators and a long barn added to the roadside elevation. The south range incorporates a two-storey former bothy at its east end. The buildings are generally roofed with graded slates.
Local climate
West And North Ranges, Farmsteading, The Knowe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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