Westerkirk School And Schoolhouse, Bentpath is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. School, house.
Westerkirk School And Schoolhouse, Bentpath
- WRENN ID
- open-column-linden
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- School, house
- OS grid reference
- NY 308 900
- Coordinates
- 55.20028, -3.0874
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Westerkirk School and Schoolhouse, located in Bentpath, is a mid-19th century building featuring a roughly L-plan arrangement. The structure is single storey, with the schoolhouse having an attic. It is constructed of roughly-coursed rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, and the south gable of the house is harled. The windows are mostly sash with 12-pane glazing, and there are corniced end and axial stacks. The roofs are covered with graded slates.
The house has an east elevation with three bays, featuring a central door set in stepped reveals and topped with a fanlight. It also has two piended and canted dormers at the ends. The school has a south elevation with four bays, where the bay nearest to the west is gabled and includes a tall bipartite axial roof ventilator above. The west elevation of the school consists of three bays. There is a modern addition to the north of the building.
Local climate
Westerkirk School And Schoolhouse, Bentpath sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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