Hayfield is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Hayfield
- WRENN ID
- graven-truss-onyx
- 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
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 897 967
- Coordinates
- 55.25289, -3.73538
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hayfield is a farmhouse designed by William Burn, built around 1833, with a detached steading to the northeast likely created by Walter Newall, probably around the same time. The house is two storeys high, featuring a lower service wing at the rear closest to the courtyard. It is constructed of stugged ashlar with polished dressing, all of which has been painted, with the eastern side whitewashed. The upper windows are mostly topped with gabled dormer heads.
On the northwest elevation, the house has three bays, with an advanced inner gable and a porch in the re-entrant angle. The southwest elevation also has three bays, with an advanced gable on the left side that includes canted ground floor windows. The house features sash windows throughout, predominantly with a 12-pane glazing pattern, along with corniced stacks and saw-toothed skews.
The steading consists of four ranges built around a walled garden to the northwest. The roofs are primarily covered with graded slates surrounding the courtyard. The steading is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, and most of it is whitewashed, with the stable roof made of corrugated asbestos. There is a tall two-storey barn at the northeast that includes a cartshed, a stable door with a loft door above, and other loft openings that are mostly square, boarded, and glazed. It also features two tiers of slit ventilators at the northeast, and while the wheel and wheelhouse have been removed, a lavatory remains above the tail race. The other ranges are single storey, with the southwest range having wide slapping to the court and an addition that abuts the northeast gable, which is a later addition and excluded from the listing. The skews are mostly saw-toothed, and there is a central midden that is now partly roofed to form a shed.
Local climate
Hayfield sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- 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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