Craigs House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. House.

Craigs House

WRENN ID
bitter-clay-elder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 996 745
Coordinates
55.05546, -3.5732
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Craigs House is an earlier 19th century building that underwent mid-century alterations to its front elevation. It is a single storey and attic structure with a sunk basement and features five bays on the west front elevation. The exterior is finished in painted ashlar.

The west elevation includes a wide inner bay with a pedimented Roman Doric portico, behind which is a door flanked by sidelights and a fanlight, all set within panelled jambs. The windows are single plate-glass sashes with shallow aprons, and the elevation also has a base course, cornice, and blocking course. There are two pedimented gables over the outer bays, which likely had attic windows added around 1896 when some interior work was carried out. The building has symmetrically placed stacks with grouped octagonal flues and a piended and platform slate roof. The flanks consist of two bays.

On the east side, there is a modern porch that sits over the basement area, which has been later enclosed by cast-iron railings. Inside, there is some ceiling plasterwork featuring Classical details, and a white marble Ionic-columned chimney piece dating from the earlier 19th century. A carved wooden chimney-piece dated 1896 suggests further alterations at that time, and there are round-arched openings in the entrance hall.

Local climate

Craigs House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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