Cable House, Dunskey Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. Cable house. 2 related planning applications.
Cable House, Dunskey Estate
- WRENN ID
- endless-lintel-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- Cable house
- OS grid reference
- NW 991 552
- Coordinates
- 54.85174, -5.13056
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cable House is an early 20th century cable house located on the Dunskey Estate at Port Kale, overlooking the coast. The building is constructed from interlocking pentagonal blocks that create a figure of eight shape. It features rendered brick with a base course, raised quoins, and timber eaves. Windows are present on all sides except for two on the west elevation, and there are protective shutters. The northeast entrance has a timber door.
The windows are six-pane timber pointed arch designs. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a piended shape, topped with an iron finial at the apex, along with a rendered stack and a circular can.
Inside, the building has timber-boarded panelling.
Local climate
Cable House, Dunskey Estate 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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