Stables, Dalswinton House 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.
Stables, Dalswinton House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-garret-saffron
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NX 942 842
- Coordinates
- 55.14123, -3.66099
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century stable block, significantly altered through the 20th century and now largely converted for domestic use. It was designed symmetrically around a rectangular courtyard, which is paved with cobblestones, and features a clock tower above the entrance.
The building is a single storey with a loft or upper floor, constructed from red sandstone ashlar. The clock tower has an irregular octagonal shape set upon a square base. It features a fluted frieze decorated with rosettes and a later 19th-century roof with a steep facetted form, iron brattishing (decorative ironwork), and a weathervane.
The north elevation is articulated with projecting central and outer bays. A depressed-arched pend (carriage way) forms the central opening. A garage opening and a modern window have replaced two original depressed-arched cart openings on the left side, with three additional bays added to the left. The right bay contains two round-headed windows, and the bays in between have single round-headed windows. The main cornice is interrupted by three inserted upper-floor windows, two of which are modern dormers, along with a blocking course. Apex stacks rise from the roof, which is piended (hipped) and covered in graded slates.
The pend below the tower is vaulted. The interior of the courtyard is limewashed with painted margins. A variety of openings are present, including three blocked, arcaded, depressed-arched cart openings on the north range. Simple vaulting is found in the pend below the tower.
The stables are shown on a print published in 1796; a copy of this print is held in the Ewart Library in Dumfries.
Local climate
Stables, Dalswinton House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.