Penfillan Mains is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 1 related planning application.
Penfillan Mains
- WRENN ID
- worn-terrace-barley
- 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
- Address
- Penfillan Mains, DG3 4DE
- OS grid reference
- NX 854 930
- Coordinates
- 55.21852, -3.80233
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Penfillan Mains is an early to mid-19th century farmhouse. It is a two-storey, three-bay building constructed of painted rubble with contrasting dressings. The east-facing elevation features a mid-19th century porch with saw-toothed skews and a doorway in a re-entrant angle. All windows are 12-pane sash windows. Corniced stacks are symmetrically placed, and the roof is piended with graded slates. Single bay extensions are situated on either side of the main block. A single-storey, three-bay gabled rear wing is harled, with a piended porch centrally positioned along the south wall, and small-paned windows.
Local climate
Penfillan 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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