St Michael's House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1988. House.

St Michael's House

WRENN ID
half-jamb-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1988
Type
House
OS grid reference
NY 138 845
Coordinates
55.14754, -3.35376
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Michael's House is a small country house built around 1850 in the style of Walter Newall. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with a two-storey rear wing that was extended in the second half of the 19th century. The house is constructed from whin rubble with contrasting red ashlar dressings, featuring chamfered margins and projecting cills.

On the south elevation, there is a deeply recessed central panelled door with a fanlight above it, topped by a pediment supported on consoles adorned with anthemion ornament. To the left, there is a late 19th-century projecting ground floor window, while the other ground floor windows are all fitted with a deep cavetto cornice. The sash windows have an 8-pane glazing pattern. The building has projecting eaves, short axial stacks, and a piended, slated U-plan roof that surrounds a central cupola. The two-bay flanks include an east-facing door located behind a lean-to conservatory, which may be contemporary with the rear wing. The rear wing extends from the west end of the north wall and features a porch on the east side.

Inside, the house has a cupola over the central stair hall, and the ground floor southeast room contains shouldered-arched recesses and a screen, which is likely contemporary with the conservatory.

Local climate

St Michael's House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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