The Temple, Cally House Policies is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 May 1981. 1 related planning application.
The Temple, Cally House Policies
- WRENN ID
- over-railing-dock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1981
- OS grid reference
- NX 605 542
- Coordinates
- 54.8638, -4.17394
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 18th century ornamental cottage, originally designed as a mock Gothic tower with a square plan. Now roofless, the building is constructed of squared rubble with granite quoins and horizontal bands of stone over each floor. Angle buttresses feature on the ground floor.
The building has pointed arch openings, including a tripartite doorway framed by lancet sidelights, with Y-tracery above the door. There is a bipartite window above the doorway. An external flight of stone steps leads to a chamber on the first floor. Both the ground and first floor chambers contain plain fireplaces. A band course runs above the first floor, topped by an embattled parapet.
The Temple is part of the Cally Estate’s designed landscape and was noted on the first edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1854-8. These types of ornamental structures were popular during the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, adding visual interest to the landscape. According to a journey through Scotland recorded in 1793, the Temple was originally used as an ornamental dwelling for a farmworker. The building is now owned by Forestry Commission Scotland.
Local climate
The Temple, Cally House Policies sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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 — 1 application
- 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
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