Portrack House is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Portrack House
- WRENN ID
- old-niche-gold
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Portrack House, DG2 0RW
- OS grid reference
- NX 938 829
- Coordinates
- 55.12957, -3.66627
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Portrack House is a villa built in 1879 by James Barbour, with parts of the structure dating back to the earlier 19th century. The building features a tripartite plan, with the original house incorporated at the rear. It is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings, all painted, and has a roof covered with graded slates.
The original house has two storeys above a basement and a three-bay north elevation. It includes hood-moulded openings on the ground floor, where the cills have been lowered to the base course. The first floor has square windows with vertical glazing in the sashes, and there is a cill course present. The stacks are adorned with cavetto cornices, and the projecting eaves may have been re-roofed by Barbour.
The 1879 section of the house is designed in a picturesque style, primarily two storeys high, featuring a pyramidal-roofed three-storey square entrance tower that is off-centre. A large cross-window fills the bay next to the left of the tower, which leads to the hall inside. The left bay and flanks of the house have projecting windows that are gabled above the wall-head. The windows throughout the building are small-paned sash windows, and the eaves are also projecting.
Local climate
Portrack House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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