Manse Of Kirkmahoe, Kirkton is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Manse Of Kirkmahoe, Kirkton
- WRENN ID
- peeling-railing-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 968 817
- Coordinates
- 55.11901, -3.61838
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Manse of Kirkmahoe, built in 1798-9, is a two-storey, three-bay manse with a single-storey, two-bay east wing. It was likely designed by John MacCracken of Dumfries. The manse is constructed from squared and tooled rubble with painted margins. The south elevation features a central panelled door with a fanlight, set within a pilastered door case. The ground floor windows were altered to tripartite designs, likely in the mid-19th century, and now have plate glass sashes. Straight skews are present, along with corniced end stacks, and the roof is covered with graded slates. The east wing has bipartite windows, and one end stack has been rebuilt. A lower range extends to the rear.
Two square, painted ashlar gate piers, each with a rusticated front, cornice, and ball finial, are flanked by railings supported by curved quadrant walls. Tradesmen MacCracken and Frederick Maxwell of Terregles were invited to inspect the original manse, and the strong resemblance between this building and the manse at Irongray, also by MacCracken, supports his authorship. Survey plans by James Barbour are held by Sutherland Dickie and Copeland, Dumfries.
Local climate
Manse Of Kirkmahoe, Kirkton 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.