Cowhill House 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.
Cowhill House
- WRENN ID
- tattered-jade-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Address
- Cowhill House, DG2 0RL
- OS grid reference
- NX 950 826
- Coordinates
- 55.12744, -3.64781
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cowhill House is a tower house addition dated 1914, designed by Peddie & Forbes Smith and built as an extension to the east end of the original Cowhill House. It is a four-storey and attic structure of rectangular plan, described as a full-size "tower house." The tower is constructed of roughly-coursed red masonry with ashlar dressings, featuring roll-moulded openings largely situated beneath relieving arches. A door is located at the south side of the east wall, with a crest positioned above it. The tower's elevations have irregularly placed window openings, all containing small-paned sashes. A corbelled and crenellated parapet, incorporating spouts and bartizans (one with a conical roof), surrounds the east gable. Other notable features include crow-stepped gables and coped end and north wall-head stacks. Two lower, square bays are present, each with a south-facing crow-stepped gable; one is on the west wall and the other projects from the south wall.
Inside, the ground floor displays wooden panelling with Corinthian pilasters, along with decorative ceiling plasterwork and chimney pieces. A wheel stair connects to the earlier section of the house. The remainder of the original Cowhill House has been substantially altered and is not part of this listing. Plans for the tower were initially drawn up in 1906, redesigned in 1914, and a previous scheme by W.F. Lyon dates from 1871. The listing acknowledges drawings indexed in the NMRS Peddie and Kinnear drawings index.
Local climate
Cowhill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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