Waterside Mains is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Farmhouse.
Waterside Mains
- WRENN ID
- buried-obsidian-elder
- 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 869 971
- Coordinates
- 55.25516, -3.77972
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Waterside Mains is a large farmhouse built in the earlier 19th century, specifically in 1828. It is a two-storey structure situated on a slope to the west, with a small courtyard steading located at the rear (north). The building is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and is entirely whitewashed.
The farmhouse features a four-bay south elevation, which is arranged as three bays plus one, with a central porch and end stacks. There is a basement in the fourth bay on the left, which is accessed from the west gable. The porch, added in the mid-19th century, includes a round-arched window. The other windows are sash types with 12-pane glazing. The roof has straight skews that are saw-toothed over the porch, and there are corniced end stacks. The roof is covered with graded slates. The elevation facing the courtyard is asymmetrical.
The steading is a single-storey L-plan structure. The west arm includes doors and a cartway leading to the courtyard, along with a lean-to that has a stone slab roof to the west. There is also a small gabled wing built at the basement level, featuring a wall-head stack above.
Local climate
Waterside Mains 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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