Nithbank House is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Country house. 1 related planning application.
Nithbank House
- WRENN ID
- steep-gutter-laurel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Country house
- OS grid reference
- NX 870 962
- Coordinates
- 55.24782, -3.77757
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Nithbank House is a country house built around 1800, featuring three storeys and three bays with symmetrical north and south elevations. A full-height, two-storey wing was added to the west in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared rubble with ashlar margins and dressings, and it has mostly small-paned sash windows. The north elevation includes a wide central doorway, a cill band at the first floor, and gabled outer bays that are linked by a balustrade to a central wall-head dormer. The outer bays are bowed, with Venetian windows on the first floor and bipartite windows in the boldly advanced and gabled inner bay, which may contain a stair. The wing features two-storey canted windows on each gable and a four-bay west elevation. The roof has shaped skews, finialed gables, and corniced stacks, covered with slate.
The property is complemented by square gatepiers with projecting caps and curved quadrant walls with shaped coping.
Local climate
Nithbank House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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