Furbar, Castle Douglas is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Furbar, Castle Douglas
- WRENN ID
- hollow-trefoil-tide
- 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 757 609
- Coordinates
- 54.92793, -3.94056
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Furbar is a mid-18th century, two-storey, three-bay house located in Castle Douglas. The building is constructed from painted rubble and features a boulder basecourse. There is a single-storey wing to the north, with a central door that has a fanlight above and a panelled door. The house has sash and case windows, which display an 8-pane glazing pattern.
On the rear elevation, there is a projecting square centre bay, with a bipartite window to the left at ground level. The remaining windows on this side are all single, fitted with plate glass and a 2-pane glazing pattern.
The house is topped with coped end stacks that have octagonal cans, thackstones, and sandstone skew stones and ridge, all covered by slate roofs.
Local climate
Furbar, Castle Douglas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 applications
- 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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