Littlebank is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 May 2005. 2 related planning applications.
Littlebank
- WRENN ID
- wild-plaster-peregrine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 May 2005
- Address
- Littlebank, DG7 1TH
- OS grid reference
- NX 759 611
- Coordinates
- 54.92942, -3.93752
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Littlebank is a single-storey lodge house likely built in the early to mid-19th century, which is connected at right angles to a single-storey byre range, creating an L-shaped layout. The building underwent alterations in the 1960s when the byre section was incorporated into the house, and a bowed addition was added to the rear in the 1980s. It features castellated details and is finished with painted harl and ashlar dressings.
The entrance elevation faces northeast and consists of a three-bay lodge with a later gabled porch at the center. This porch includes a round-arched door with a sunburst fanlight above, a panelled door, and two-pane sidelights that have trefoiled details resembling gunloops at the top. Windows are located on either side of the entrance. The former byre range extends to the outer left and has a castellated end elevation with a window flanked by blind trefoiled gunloops and corbelled battlements, which appear to have been rebuilt or altered in brick and feature additional trefoil ornamentation.
On the northwest elevation, the former byre range has three windows and a garage door on the outer left. The windows are 4-pane timber sash and case style. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and there is a harled ridge stack along with Velux rooflights. The property features a setted forecourt.
The boundary wall is a long structure made of whinstone, topped with sandstone coping, which separates Littlebank and Lochbank from the road. It includes a pedestrian gateway leading to the former, which is listed alongside the latter.
Local climate
Littlebank sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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