Livingstone House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.

Livingstone House

WRENN ID
spare-steeple-crimson
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
Address
Livingstone House, DG7 2LX
OS grid reference
NX 714 676
Coordinates
54.98698, -4.01019
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Livingstone House is an earlier 18th century house with early 19th century additions. It features a symmetrical design with classical details, standing two storeys high with an attic. Originally rectangular, the house has a later west wing that creates an L-shape. The south elevation is harled, while the other sides are finished in painted rubble. The building has smooth rusticated quoins at all corners and polished raised margins with chamfered arrises.

The main south elevation has five bays, with the central three bays slightly advanced and topped with a pediment. A 19th century hipped porch is located at the centre, featuring raised angle margins. The door has a lugged architrave that has been re-used from the original doorway and consists of double-leaf panelled doors. The ground floor windows have been widened in the 19th century, while the upper windows retain their original dimensions. All windows are sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and there is an octagonal window in the centre of the pediment tympanum. The roof is piended slate with central axial corniced stacks that have angle margins.

On the north elevation, the original design is similar to the south, but there is a 19th century two-storey gabled jamb that extends at right angles. This section features re-used quoins at the angles and some re-used window margins. The gable has timber bracketed eaves, a slate roof, and a coped axial stack.

There is also a small single-storey wing to the north, which has rusticated quoins and a gabled slate roof with an end stack. To the west, there is a piend-roofed painted rubble outbuilding that adjoins the 19th century wing.

Local climate

Livingstone House 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 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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