Farmsteading, Muirhousehead is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1988. Farmhouse, steading. 4 related planning applications.
Farmsteading, Muirhousehead
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-joist-starling
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, steading
- Address
- Farmsteading, Muirhousehead, DG11 1HA
- OS grid reference
- NY 117 848
- Coordinates
- 55.15044, -3.38616
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Muirhousehead is an earlier 19th century two-storey, three-bay farmhouse that is part of a courtyard steading. The building is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and is whitewashed, featuring contrasting painted margins. The roofs are primarily covered with graded slates.
The house has a central gabled timber porch on the west elevation and sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. It has straight skews and end stacks, with flanking full-width single-storey steading ranges. The southern range, originally piended, has been converted for domestic use, with its roof linked to a lean-to at the rear of the house.
The steading is a single-storey structure with lofts, featuring an 18th-century barn in the northern range that includes a three-bay cartshed with deep lintels and a narrow loft. There is an apsidal horsemill to the north. The southern range has a double-pile layout with piended and gabled roofs, while the wide eastern range has a tall roof and wide slapping in the northern gable.
Local climate
Farmsteading, Muirhousehead 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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 — 4 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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