Eskdale Hotel, High Street, Langholm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1988. Hotel.
Eskdale Hotel, High Street, Langholm
- WRENN ID
- steep-outpost-myrtle
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- OS grid reference
- NY 364 844
- Coordinates
- 55.15064, -2.99893
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Eskdale Hotel, located on High Street in Langholm, was designed by the architects Habershon, Spedding and Brock of London and built between 1866 and 1867. This large hotel features a picturesque style with predominantly pointed-headed openings facing the street, broad eaves, and barge-boarded gables. The extensive rear ranges are arranged around a rectangular courtyard.
Constructed from grey rubble with ashlar dressings, the three-storey front range has narrow gabled flanks and a nearly symmetrical six-bay elevation towards High Street. It is flanked by a pair of wallhead gables and has a small central gabled dormer. The top floor windows are square-headed, and there is a blocked segmental-arched carriage pend on the left. The main entrance is located in the fifth bay, topped by a steep-gabled hood. Most upper windows feature small balconies, and the sash windows have a four-pane glazing pattern. The building includes corniced end and axial stacks and is topped with slate roofs.
The courtyard ranges are stepped to follow the slope and consist of one, two, and three storeys, with most areas converted for staff and residents' use. The former halls are located in the southeast range, while the southwest range originally housed stables, with a main roof that is bracketed and sweeps down to form a verandah. The courtyard opens to Laird's entry, which is flanked by screen walls and square gatepiers.
Local climate
Eskdale Hotel, High Street, Langholm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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