Canonbie School is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. School. 1 related planning application.
Canonbie School
- WRENN ID
- bitter-garret-dock
- 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
- School
- Address
- Canonbie School, DG14 0XA
- OS grid reference
- NY 396 766
- Coordinates
- 55.08041, -2.94704
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Canonbie School is a single-storey school building from the late 19th century, designed with a symmetrical layout. It is constructed of stugged red ashlar stone, featuring contrasting dressings.
The east elevation consists of a four-bay inner range that includes a blind central oculus and end stacks. There are two-bay wings with gabled entrance bays, which have shouldered doors topped with fanlights and raised hoodmoulds. The outer bays are slightly recessed, and the end walls are twin-gabled. All windows are small-paned mullioned sash types. The skews are saw-toothed with gabletted skewputts and fleur-de-lis finials, and the building has slate roofs.
At the rear, there is a three-bay wing that is central on the east wall, with a shelter beyond that has a corrugated iron roof, open to the north and south. There are some minor additions at the rear of the building.
The playground is enclosed by rubble-built walls with ashlar coping, which incorporate former toilets, and there are spiked cast-iron railings to the west.
Local climate
Canonbie School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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