Goldielea is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Mansion, hotel.
Goldielea
- WRENN ID
- sacred-flue-barley
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Mansion, hotel
- OS grid reference
- NX 931 735
- Coordinates
- 55.04468, -3.6741
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Goldielea is a mansion house built around 1785, now functioning as a hotel. It is a three-storey, five-bay structure with a basement and symmetrical flanking wings. The building underwent modifications around 1857 and again around 1895, when a brick billiard room and a glass house range were added to the rear. The exterior is rendered with ashlar dressings.
The south-east elevation features steps leading to a central porch supported by Roman Doric columns. There is a cill course at the upper floors, and the upper windows, which were altered around 1895, now have pediments and are cut through the main cornice. The building has corniced end stacks and a piended roof. The two-storey, two-bay wings also have piended roofs and are connected to the main block by recessed low linking bays with enlarged three-light inserted openings. A circular stair turret is located at the rear, with a canted billiard room to the left. The roofs are covered with slate.
Inside, there is a cantilevered stair with decorative cast-iron balusters and panelled doors set in door cases. The ceiling features simple plasterwork. The glass house is timber-framed and includes some cast-iron members.
Local climate
Goldielea sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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