Knockbrex, Bathing House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Bathing house.
Knockbrex, Bathing House
- WRENN ID
- last-lime-wind
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- Type
- Bathing house
- OS grid reference
- NX 581 489
- Coordinates
- 54.81496, -4.20867
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Knockbrex Bathing House is a picturesque grotto-bathing house built after 1915 for James Brown of Knockbrex. It is located half a mile southeast of Knockbrex House. The building has a symmetrical rectangular plan and is a single storey high, featuring a corbel eaves course and a castellated parapet. The structure is made of rubble-faced concrete and became roofless in 1988 due to a fire.
The advanced center bay includes a round-arched door with flanking oculi. The side elevations are adorned with wide rectangular windows. Inside, the ground plan is symmetrical, with a round-arched fireplace on the north wall, flanked by changing cubicles.
Additionally, there is a castellated store to the southeast, constructed of coursed random rubble. This former store has a single doorway and a battlemented parapet.
Local climate
Knockbrex, Bathing House 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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