Alton Farmhouse And Steading, Durisdeer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Farmhouse, steading.
Alton Farmhouse And Steading, Durisdeer
- WRENN ID
- sharp-granite-rye
- 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
- Farmhouse, steading
- OS grid reference
- NS 854 018
- Coordinates
- 55.29697, -3.80604
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Alton Farmhouse and Steading, designed by architect Walter Newall, dates from around 1830 and consists of a single storey with an attic. It is located at the south end of a courtyard steading, which was built in 1830 and 1831. The farmhouse is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and is whitewashed. It features a gabled central porch with saw-toothed skews and barge-boarded canted dormers that were added to the south elevation in the mid-19th century. The house has sash windows with 12-pane glazing on the ground floor, straight skews, and corniced end stacks. There is a modern rear wing that opens to the courtyard.
The steading, which can be accessed from the southwest and northeast corners, consists of recessed asymmetrical ranges that flank the house. The tall west range includes a carshed with a barn above, featuring a loft door and glazed and boarded square loft openings. Its piended roof extends over a full-width lean-to at the south. The north range has a modern full-length addition to the courtyard, while the east range has been converted into a tractor shed, with a slapping in the short north wall.
All roofs are covered with graded slates, with most of the steading roofs being piended and equipped with axial ventilators.
Local climate
Alton Farmhouse And Steading, Durisdeer 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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