Langshawbush, Moffat is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1988.
Langshawbush, Moffat
- WRENN ID
- sombre-bastion-autumn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1988
- OS grid reference
- NT 083 044
- Coordinates
- 55.32582, -3.44674
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Langshawbush is a late 19th-century villa accompanied by a coach house and kennels, situated near Moffat. The main villa is a two-storey structure with a three-storey square entrance tower at its northwest corner. The exterior walls are constructed from roughly coursed and squared whinstone, enhanced by contrasting ashlar dressings and raised quoins. First-floor windows are largely topped with gabled dormer heads. The tower features a doorway facing north, set within a shallow, castellated porch with shouldering details. A corbelled and crenellated parapet tops the tower, and an engaged angle turret extends upwards as a cap house, finished with a leaded, bell-cast roof and a finial.
The remaining north-facing bays are divided by a prominent chimney breast. The east and south gables are treated similarly, with the main roof extending over a two-storey canted window in the right gable. The eaves are supported by brackets, and the roof is topped with spike finials and graded slates. The west wall is plain, constructed of whinstone, indicating a former wing that once adjoined.
The coach house and kennels to the southwest mirror the detailing of the main villa. A pair of good corniced, square panelled gatepiers mark the entrance to the north, with cast-iron gates. Simpler piers and a pedestrian gate are located to the south. Two sundials are present in the garden, one with a facet-headed design, both now situated on modern bases.
Local climate
Langshawbush, Moffat sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% 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 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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