Dunskey Home Farm is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Dunskey Home Farm
- WRENN ID
- guardian-stone-mallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Dunskey Home Farm, DG9 8TJ
- OS grid reference
- NX 005 554
- Coordinates
- 54.854, -5.10823
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dunskey Home Farm is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey farm building designed in an E-plan layout. The northern side is harled, while the southern side features whinstone, with red brick surrounds in a long and short pattern around the windows in the whinstone range.
The southwest elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a central M-gabled house. It features a recessed timber door topped with a shoulder-arched fanlight. There are single windows on either side at both the ground and first floors, with the ground floor window on the left being bipartite. To the left of the centre, there is a gabled bay with bipartite windows on both floors and adjoining walls on either side. This bay also has a three-stage bellcote with blank clock stages on the second stage and a broken spire. To the right of the centre, there is another gabled bay with a boarded opening on the first floor.
The northwest elevation of the south courtyard has nine bays. It features segmental arch openings for cartsheds at the ground level across seven bays to the left, with regular fenestration on the first floor, which has smaller windows. The penultimate bay on the right has a door that replaces a window, and there is a loading bay at the outer right on the first floor.
The southeast elevation has three single windows at the ground level on the outer left. The penultimate bay to the right contains a gabled dovecot with a segmental arch leading to a boarded entrance, a blank square plaque, and dovecot openings. The taller gabled bay on the outer right has a square opening at the ground level and a central opening in the attic.
The central house features plate glass timber sash and case windows, along with rooflights. The roof is covered with grey slate and has stone skews and skewputts.
Inside, there are remains of a timber mill.
Local climate
Dunskey Home Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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