Fair Isle, Marrburn Road, Penpont Village is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Cottage.

Fair Isle, Marrburn Road, Penpont Village

WRENN ID
tenth-lead-root
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NX 847 947
Coordinates
55.2337, -3.81443
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Fair Isle is a pair of adjoining single-storey cottages from the earlier 19th century, located on Marrburn Road in Penpont Village. The cottages are built of stugged and squared pink rubble with ashlar dressings and feature painted narrow window margins. Each cottage has two inner doors, with the northern door being panelled and topped by a rectangular 5-paned fanlight. The sash windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern. The cottages also have saw-toothed skews, coped end stacks, two rooflights, and a slate roof.

Local climate

Fair Isle, Marrburn Road, Penpont Village sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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