Drummore is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Farmhouse.
Drummore
- WRENN ID
- rooted-postern-candle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 135 363
- Coordinates
- 54.68799, -4.89459
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Drummore is a farmhouse built in the later 19th century, featuring two storeys and three bays, with a two-storey cheese loft attached to the rear, creating an L-shaped plan. The exterior is made of painted rubble with painted raised margins.
On the south elevation, there is a gabled porch at the center, with a door to the left leading to the west return and a window to the south. The eaves overhang, and there is a timber spike finial. The windows are regularly arranged.
The west elevation has a window on the left side for both floors, while the cheese loft is recessed to the left.
The east elevation is gabled and blank.
On the north elevation, there is a window on the left side for both floors, with the cheese loft adjoining to the right.
The cheese loft features a door leading to the house and a window above on the first floor to the left of the east elevation. It has two machinery doors and three windows at ground level, along with four window openings on the first floor. The west elevation has three window openings at ground level and four on the first floor. There is also a lean-to structure attached to the north elevation.
The windows throughout are sash and case style, with four-pane glazing and smaller upper sashes on the south elevation, some featuring twelve-pane glazing. The cheese loft has small-pane glazing and boarded shutters on its openings. The building has coped skews and painted rubble chimney stacks, with gableheads on the east and west sides and a ridge between the house and cheese loft. The roof is covered with purple slates and features octagonal cans.
To the north, there is a painted rubble steading.
Local climate
Drummore 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 1 freeze-thaw cycle a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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