The Galloway Arms Hotel, Castle Douglas Road, Crocketford is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
The Galloway Arms Hotel, Castle Douglas Road, Crocketford
- WRENN ID
- still-bronze-moon
- 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
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 831 728
- Coordinates
- 55.03611, -3.82961
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Galloway Arms Hotel, located on Castle Douglas Road in Crocketford, is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay house. The exterior is harled and features raised quoins and margins. The entrance is highlighted by a Roman Doric pilastered doorpiece with a blocking course. All windows are single-light with modern glazing. The building has an eaves cornice, flat skews, a slate roof, and corniced axial end stacks. There are extensive later 19th century and modern additions at the rear. To the west, there is a single-storey harled cottage that is three bays wide with a central door that has been converted into a window.
Local climate
The Galloway Arms Hotel, Castle Douglas Road, Crocketford sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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