Outertown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 September 1987. Farmhouse.

Outertown

WRENN ID
calm-soffit-elder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
30 September 1987
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NY 203 689
Coordinates
55.00856, -3.24749
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Outertown is a farmhouse built in the earlier to mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure located at the south end of a courtyard steading. The main roof slopes down to one and a half storeys towards the courtyard, and the building is constructed from rubble with ashlar margins, having been whitewashed facing the courtyard.

The south elevation features three unequal bays, with an altered inner doorway that has a modern door and a pulvinated frieze and cornice placed asymmetrically over the architrave. The ground floor windows have been slightly enlarged in the 19th century, while the original first-floor windows retain chamfered reveals, although two have modern glazing. The building also has a moulded cornice, end stacks, and a slate roof.

On the courtyard elevation, there is an off-centre door set in a lugged bolection-moulded architrave, with a contemporary window to the right that has chamfered margins. Other openings on this side are not original. The wide wall-head gable features casement windows. The west wing, which is built on a slope, includes a basement and a forestair at the northwest. A stone platform on the west flank rests on a square monolith and supports an oil tank.

Local climate

Outertown sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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