Gerranton is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Farmhouse.
Gerranton
- WRENN ID
- stark-dormer-evening
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 777 651
- Coordinates
- 54.96569, -3.91126
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gerranton is an early 19th-century farmhouse that stands two storeys tall and features three bays, along with single-storey pavilions that have piend roofs. The exterior is made of painted rubble with polished raised margins. It has single light windows with 4-pane glazing on the ground floor and three timber gabled dormer heads on the first floor, which contain aluminium framed plate glass sashes. The roofs are covered with slate, and there are corniced axial stacks topped with octagonal cans. The entrance is located at the rear, accessed through a single-storey piended addition. The farmhouse also includes 12-pane sashes and is flanked by single-storey piended wings.
Local climate
Gerranton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 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 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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