Valenciennes is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 2 related planning applications.
Valenciennes
- WRENN ID
- quiet-flint-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Address
- Valenciennes, DG10 9SQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 068 037
- Coordinates
- 55.31887, -3.46945
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Valenciennes is an early 19th century picturesque single-storey house arranged in a U-plan, originally built as cottages with outbuildings in wings. The exterior is whitewashed rubble with painted ashlar margins, featuring unusual rubble blocking to the openings, which are mostly square-headed and set within round-headed margins. Some minor alterations have been made.
The long west-facing elevation has three wide bays, with oculi in the wall-head pediments above the openings. The central bay features a door flanked by windows, and the outer bays have bipartites. Each west-facing gable has an oculus, and there is an off-centre, west-facing door set within depressed-arched margins with a bracketed modern hood. A lean-to is situated in the north re-entrant angle. Corniced axial stacks rise from the roof and the roof itself is slate covered, with red ridging tiles.
Local climate
Valenciennes sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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