Ellisland Farm is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Farmhouse, steadings.

Ellisland Farm

WRENN ID
tired-corridor-bistre
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
Farmhouse, steadings
OS grid reference
NX 929 838
Coordinates
55.13741, -3.68021
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ellisland Farm was built in 1788 for Robert Burns. It is a single-storey farmhouse with a steading, constructed of painted rubble with dressings, and features painted margins. The west elevation of the house has three bays, with a central door that has been converted into a window, and an additional blank bay on the right, which may be an early 19th-century addition. The house includes 4-pane sash windows and corniced end stacks, with a door located in the re-entrant angle of the rear (east) wing. The roofs are covered with slate, with graded slates over the rear wing.

To the west, there are two parallel steading ranges. The north range has lofts at the west end, two lintelled cart openings leading to the courtyard, and a loft door flanked by small square openings above. The plain south range and a nearby range are set at right angles, both featuring roof vents.

Additionally, there is a pyramidal-roofed single-storey square shed located to the northeast, set on a slope above the river bank. This shed has a door facing west, two windows, and two basement doors facing south. To the south of the house, there is a walled orchard.

Local climate

Ellisland Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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