Powfoot Bowling Club Pavilion, Pow Water Gardens, Powfoot is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 September 2003. Bowling pavilion.
Powfoot Bowling Club Pavilion, Pow Water Gardens, Powfoot
- WRENN ID
- waning-hinge-holly
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 September 2003
- Type
- Bowling pavilion
- OS grid reference
- NY 148 657
- Coordinates
- 54.97919, -3.3313
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Powfoot Bowling Club Pavilion, built around 1907, is a single-storey, three-bay structure designed in the Arts and Crafts style. It features a veranda supported by turned timber posts and has painted timber detailing along with decorative brickwork on the gables. The roof is half-hipped and covered with slate, adorned with ornamental red terracotta ridge tiles and finials.
The gables have plain bargeboards and valances, complemented by curvilinear timber detailing along the eaves of the veranda. The entrance includes a half-glazed timber panelled door with deeply moulded decorative panels. The front elevation has fixed bipartite windows with small-pane glazing in the upper section and single, shoulder-arched panes in the lower half. A similar glazing pattern is found on the north elevation.
Inside, as observed in 2013, the pavilion remains largely intact, featuring boarded timber panelling on all walls and the ceiling, with evidence of simple stencilling at the dado level. The floors are finished with diamond-set tiles in both the interior and the veranda. There is a small side room to the south that contains a simple cast-iron corner urinal and a porcelain basin, which is supported by a decorative cast-iron apron and legs.
Local climate
Powfoot Bowling Club Pavilion, Pow Water Gardens, Powfoot sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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