School, Keir Mill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.

School, Keir Mill

WRENN ID
silent-oriel-clover
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
OS grid reference
NX 859 931
Coordinates
55.2192, -3.79496
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building comprises a former school and a two-story schoolhouse, constructed circa 1880. They are arranged in an H-plan, with the main facade facing west. The structure is built of stugged and squared rubble with ashlar dressings. The school building (to the north) features large mullioned and transomed gable windows, and an adjoining small sheltered porch on the north side. The schoolhouse has mostly bipartite windows, and a lean-to porch situated in the re-entrant angle, containing a pointed-headed west-facing doorway. The roof has shaped skews with gabletted skewputts, and coped axial stacks. It is covered by slate roofing. The site is set back behind a low boundary wall constructed of coped ashlar.

Local climate

School, Keir Mill 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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