Open Barns, Cairnsmore is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1993. Barn.
Open Barns, Cairnsmore
- WRENN ID
- high-pier-finch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1993
- Type
- Barn
- OS grid reference
- NX 470 639
- Coordinates
- 54.94691, -4.38922
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Open Barns at Cairnsmore date from the earlier 19th century and consist of two open barns that run parallel to each other. They feature granite monolithic pillars that support piended roofs covered with graded grey slates. The eastern and western barns have five bays, while the northern and southern barns have a single bay, except for the northern and western barn, which has two bays.
Local climate
Open Barns, Cairnsmore sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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