School Caretaker's House, Thornhill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. House.

School Caretaker's House, Thornhill

WRENN ID
nether-brick-onyx
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 880 956
Coordinates
55.24244, -3.76177
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The School Caretaker's House in Thornhill was designed by architect Charles Howitt of the Drumlanrig estate and is dated 1867. This two-storey, three-bay house is constructed of bullfaced pinkish ashlar with polished dressings and features hood-moulded Tudor-arched openings. The inner bay is advanced and gabled, with a boarded two-leaf door. The windows are all bipartite with lying-pane glazing and have gabled dormer heads. The house has saw-toothed skews and projecting chimney breasts with corniced end stacks, and the roof is covered with graded slates. There is a twin-gabled rear wing that is not of uniform construction.

Local climate

School Caretaker's House, Thornhill 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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