Fairyknowe House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Fairyknowe House
- WRENN ID
- keen-rampart-vetch
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NY 267 750
- Coordinates
- 55.06409, -3.14886
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fairyknowe House is an early 19th-century villa, likely designed by Alexander Johnstone, accompanied by associated outbuildings to the north. The house is a single-storey structure with a raised basement and comprises three bays. It is constructed of rubble with ashlar margins. The central door was renewed in the 1920s or 1930s, accompanied by the addition of a columned doorpiece; the ground floor windows are square, while those in the basement have a horizontal emphasis with lying panes and a latticed casement window below the stair. Other basement windows are sash windows. The house features base and eaves courses, and a blocked cornice to all elevations. End stacks sit on ramped bases, and the roof is piended and platformed, covered in slate and lead, with two Velux lights to the front and rear. The flank and rear elevations feature varied glazing patterns, mostly in timber sash and case windows. A central stair window is visible on the rear elevation.
The outbuildings include a tall, rectangular barn built against a bank to the east, with a symmetrical long west wall featuring a large central arch, and a recessed gabled range to the north incorporating a dovecot and low kennels beyond. All outbuildings are rubble-built with ashlar dressings and have slate roofs. The original front steps are now located in the garden, and column bases on the site may be remnants of an earlier doorpiece. Records indicate plans by Alexander Johnstone are held.
Local climate
Fairyknowe House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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