Horsemill, Glentoo is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Horsemill, Glentoo
- WRENN ID
- leaning-quoin-yew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 705 620
- Coordinates
- 54.93627, -4.02151
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Glentoo is an early 19th century farmsteading that includes a single storey and attic cottage, along with a circular horsemill next to a long two-storey rubble barn. The farmhouse is designed in a T-plan layout, featuring painted rubble walls and a three-bay frontage. It has a central gabled porch and single light windows with a four-pane glazing pattern, where the upper part opens from the top. The roofs are slate, with end coped stacks topped with thackstanes.
The steading includes a circular horsemill built of rubble, topped with a conical slate roof and lacking any gearing. The tall two-storey rubble barn, which is closest to the horsemill, was formerly a mill, although no machinery remains. The barn has three depressed arch cart entrances, each with roughly cut narrow voussoirs.
Local climate
Horsemill, Glentoo sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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