Carruthers is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988. Farmhouse.
Carruthers
- WRENN ID
- silver-bronze-starling
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 252 806
- Coordinates
- 55.11481, -3.17391
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carruthers is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse. It is constructed from coursed, roughly squared rubble with polished dressings and margins. The south elevation features a central pilastered wide doorpiece with the original door, which now has glazed top panels and a fanlight above. The windows are 12-pane sashes. The building has an eaves course, a cornice, and end stacks that are shouldered at the base. The roof is piended and has a platform design, covered with graded slates. The three-bay north elevation also includes 12-pane sashes and a piended central porch.
Local climate
Carruthers sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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