Grennan is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1993. Farmhouse.

Grennan

WRENN ID
iron-vault-soot
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1993
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NX 240 614
Coordinates
54.91659, -4.74606
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Grennan is an earlier 19th-century farmhouse and adjoining steading, designed in a near quadrangular plan with a longer west jamb. The farmhouse is two stories high and has three bays, constructed from painted rubble with painted raised margins. The windows are primarily 4-pane or plate glass in sash and case style, and there are wallhead stacks on the east and west sides. The roof is piended and covered with purple slates.

On the principal south elevation, there is a fanlit door at the center, with regular fenestration on both the ground and first floors. To the left and right are the gable ends of single-storey steading ranges, with a window in the left gable and a glasshouse attached to the right gable.

The north elevation features a small lean-to porch on the right, which has a door leading to the east return. There is also a window to the right on the first floor. A later gabled painted brick wing is attached at the center, with a window on the ground and first floors to the north, two windows on the ground floor to the east, and a door to the right leading to the west.

In the garden, there is a square slate sundial inscribed "John Cunninghame, 1826," featuring an open iron gnomon and a red sandstone stalk that is not original to the sundial.

The steading is built from painted rubble and has gabled slate roofs. The east range steps up to an L-plan barn to the northeast, which includes a threshing machine and narrow openings at ground level. There is a smiddy in the range to the north, complete with a forge and bellows. Additionally, there is a rubble horse mill walk to the east, equipped with iron gearing, and a variety of glazing, including fixed metal small-pane windows.

Local climate

Grennan sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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