Cistern House, Hoddom Mains is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 September 1987. Cistern house.
Cistern House, Hoddom Mains
- WRENN ID
- quiet-ashlar-oak
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1987
- Type
- Cistern house
- OS grid reference
- NY 159 724
- Coordinates
- 55.03962, -3.31728
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Cistern House at Hoddom Mains was likely built around 1880 as a water supply for Hoddom Castle. The structure features circular, vertically-boarded timber walls and has a door facing west towards Hoddom Mains, with no other openings. It is topped with a conical slate roof that has bracketed eaves, and includes a louvered and glazed apex cupola with a weathervane finial.
Local climate
Cistern House, Hoddom Mains sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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