Toy Fort, Knockbrex is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Mock fort.
Toy Fort, Knockbrex
- WRENN ID
- guardian-rotunda-swallow
- 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
- Mock fort
- OS grid reference
- NX 584 498
- Coordinates
- 54.8238, -4.20416
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Toy Fort, built around 1900, is a square-plan mock fort that features both single and two-storey sections, with taller towers at the corners. The structure is made of stugged rubble with finely tooled dressings and prominent contrasting pointing. Most of the openings are round-arched, and the windows are small-pane glazed. The northeast and southeast corners have polygonal towers, while the northwest corner features a round tower topped with a candle-snuffer roof. At the southwest corner, there is a square turret that is corbelled out at the first floor. All the parapets are castellated. The west elevation is single-storey and includes two small cart arches at the ground level and a conservatory to the left. There is also a pair of tall coped rubble gatepiers with ball finials and timber gates. The boundary walls are curved, made of rubble with decorative pebble coping.
Local climate
Toy Fort, Knockbrex 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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