Kindar House, New Abbey 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.

Kindar House, New Abbey

WRENN ID
dusk-grate-gilt
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 964 657
Coordinates
54.97589, -3.61996
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Kindar House is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay house with a raised basement. It is constructed from cherry-caulked white granite blocks, featuring contrasting red ashlar dressings, raised quoins, and long and short worked door and window dressings. The east elevation is symmetrical, showcasing a deeply recessed panelled door with columned jambs and an ogee traceried fanlight, which is accessed by splayed steps with plain handrails. Above the door, there is a tripartite window on the first floor, with blind outer lights and an ogival-headed inner light, flanked by pointed lights. The outer bays have sash windows, with four panes on the ground floor and twelve panes on the first floor. Additional architectural details include a base course, an eaves and lintel band, and a cornice. The house features symmetrically placed margined stacks and a piended slate roof, along with gabled rear wings and outbuildings.

Local climate

Kindar House, New Abbey sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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