The Old School, 2 Main Street, Elrig is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. School. 3 related planning applications.
The Old School, 2 Main Street, Elrig
- WRENN ID
- peeling-gravel-rain
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- School
- Address
- The Old School, 2 Main Street, Elrig, DG8 9RD
- OS grid reference
- NX 321 475
- Coordinates
- 54.79495, -4.61203
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old School, located at 2 Main Street in Elrig, is a former school and adjoining schoolhouse built in the later 19th century. It is a two-storey building, with the first floor breaking the eaves, and features a traditional three-bay design typical of Wigtown houses. A single-storey school is attached to the south, forming an L-plan layout. The exterior is finished in painted rubble.
On the east elevation, which is the principal side, the house is on the right and has a central door with windows in the outer bays at ground level. The first floor features windows set in gabled dormerheads. To the left is the school section, which has a window to the right and a gable to the left, with a lean-to addition that includes doors on both the north and south sides.
The south elevation has three regularly spaced classroom windows, while the north elevation is gabled and blank.
The building features timber sash and case windows, with four-pane glazing in the house and mainly plate-glass glazing in the two-light windows of the school. The roof has red sandstone coped skews and painted rubble stacks with red sandstone copes; the house has a gablehead stack, while the school has a ridge stack on the north jamb. The roof is primarily covered with small grey slates, although the south pitch of the school has modern roofing. The east elevation has rubble coped walls.
Local climate
The Old School, 2 Main Street, Elrig sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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