Kennels House, Lochinch Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 2000. House.
Kennels House, Lochinch Castle
- WRENN ID
- secret-landing-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 January 2000
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 103 622
- Coordinates
- 54.91914, -4.96003
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kennels House at Lochinch Castle is a later 19th-century, two-storey building with an asymmetrical three-bay plan. It is constructed from whinstone, featuring granite quoins and dressings, and has bracketed timber eaves.
On the southeast elevation, there is a central timber door with decorative iron hinges, a single window to the left, a dormer window on the first floor, and a canted window at ground level in the gabled bay on the outer right. Above this, there is another single window aligned on the first floor.
The northwest (rear) elevation includes a glazed timber door at the centre, a small square window to the left, a timber door leading to a recessed bay on the outer left, and a single window to the right. There is also a bipartite window in the advanced gabled bay on the outer right.
On the northeast (side) elevation, there is a single window in the gabled bay on the outer right, with two timber doors flanking a single window leading to a lean-to. Above, there is a square panel at the gablehead.
The southwest (side) elevation features a tripartite window at ground level in the gabled bay on the outer right, a pentice porch, a single window aligned above on the first floor, and a narrow window in the re-entrant angle to the left.
The windows are a mix of plate glass and timber sash and case styles, with 4-, 8-, and 12-pane configurations. The first-floor windows on the southeast elevation are modern. The roof is covered with grey slate and has coped brick ridge stacks with circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1999.
Local climate
Kennels House, Lochinch Castle sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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