Castlehill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Castlehill
- WRENN ID
- leaning-hearth-mint
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 927 752
- Coordinates
- 55.06012, -3.68049
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castlehill is a house dating from around 1800, featuring two storeys and three bays, along with a basement. The exterior is finished in painted, droved ashlar with margins and rusticated quoins. On the north elevation, there are steps leading up to a central porch supported by Roman Doric columns, which houses a panelled door with a decorative fanlight above. The windows are 12-pane sashes, and the building includes a base course, an eaves and lintel band, a cornice, straight skews, and end stacks, all topped with a slate roof.
A central stair turret on the north wall has a curved roof. The west gable connects to a long two-storey range, likely a former house built in the second half of the 18th century. This range is harled with altered openings, blocked eaves at the north end, curved skewputts, and two 12-pane sashes on the north gable. It also features two modern garage doors facing east, brick end stacks, and a slate roof.
To the south, a garden wall extends, and at the roadside, there are two circular painted ashlar gatepiers that are corniced and topped with domed caps.
Local climate
Castlehill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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- 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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