Railway Embankment, Priestcrown Wood, Durisdeer is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Railway embankment. 1 related planning application.
Railway Embankment, Priestcrown Wood, Durisdeer
- WRENN ID
- rooted-remnant-harvest
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Railway embankment
- OS grid reference
- NS 852 048
- Coordinates
- 55.3241, -3.80945
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The railway embankment at Priestcrown Wood in Durisdeer was part of the Closeburn-New Cumnock line, engineered by John Miller and opened on October 28, 1850. This embankment is constructed of stugged red ashlar with bull-faced coping slabs. The main wall rises from the outer ends and is supported by closely spaced, shallow-battered tall plain buttresses. These buttresses are stepped below the main coping, while lower, steeply-battered buttressing fills most of the intermediate spaces.
Local climate
Railway Embankment, Priestcrown Wood, Durisdeer 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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