Devorgilla Cottage, 21 Main Street, New Abbey is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Cottage.
Devorgilla Cottage, 21 Main Street, New Abbey
- WRENN ID
- far-cinder-hawthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 964 662
- Coordinates
- 54.97991, -3.62004
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Devorgilla Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay cottage with an attic, built between 1820 and 1830. It features a centrally located door on both the east and west elevations. To the west, there is a parallel outbuilding dated 1847. Both structures are constructed from rubble and are whitewashed, with contrasting painted margins, mostly in ashlar.
The east elevation, which faces the garden, has a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above it. There are sash windows with 12-pane glazing and two piended canted dormers. The west-facing openings have rubble margins, except for one window that has been altered. The cottage has straight skews, corniced end stacks, and is roofed with graded slates. A lean-to and a modern conservatory are attached to the south gable.
The outbuilding is two storeys high and has four bays, with doors and small-paned windows. It was originally a carriage house and now serves as a garage. The north gable features two small bull's eye windows and a datestone above. There is a single end stack, and the roof is also covered with slate.
Local climate
Devorgilla Cottage, 21 Main Street, New Abbey 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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