Rowan House, Kirkton is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Rowan House, Kirkton
- WRENN ID
- small-span-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 975 814
- Coordinates
- 55.11639, -3.60802
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rowan House is an early 19th-century building of two storeys and three bays, located within Kirkton Village. It is constructed from painted stugged ashlar. The front features a central boarded door with a fanlight above, and four-pane sash windows. The roof is slate-covered and has straight skews and corniced end stacks. The building is part of a group value context with Rowan Cottage, Greystone Cottage, and 1-5 Weighbridge Cottages.
Local climate
Rowan House, Kirkton 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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