Glen is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Farmhouse.
Glen
- WRENN ID
- noble-storey-ash
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 547 579
- Coordinates
- 54.89508, -4.26716
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glen is an earlier 18th century, 2-storey and attic farmhouse with a symmetrical 5-bay design. The rear quoin is inscribed with 'Founded 1734 by I McD', although the script appears to have been recut in a 19th century style. The house was re-roofed in the later 19th century and features thickly rendered walls with painted margins and rusticated quoins. The wide central entrance has a double-leaf panelled door and a fanlight above it. All windows are sash and case with a 12-pane glazing pattern, and there is a moulded eaves cornice. The flanks of the house have windows, including small attic windows. The rear elevation includes a later 19th century granite rubble projecting wing, which is lower and has both 2-storey and single-storey sections. Most rear windows of the main house do not have margins. The roof was re-covered in the later 19th century with overhanging slates and coped end stacks, and there are a pair of later 19th century dormers on the rear. Rooflights are present, with three on the front and one on the rear.
Inside, the layout is rectangular with a tripartite division and two rooms in depth. There is a central hall with a wide stairway at the rear, flanked by two inter-communicating rooms on each side. The southwest ground floor room features a carved chimneypiece in an 18th century style, which may not be original but is set in a deep authentic hearth.
The stable block, likely built around the same time as the house, is situated on sloping ground and has a rectangular plan with whitewashed rubble. It features a segmental carriage opening to the outer right, a stable door, and a square opening at the center. There is a stone forestair and a hayloft door in the gable end to the left. The roof was recently destroyed by fire and has been replaced with corrugated sheet metal.
Local climate
Glen sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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