Drybridge Over Wallace's Loaning, Castledykes View, Glencaple Road, Dumfries is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 March 1981.
Drybridge Over Wallace's Loaning, Castledykes View, Glencaple Road, Dumfries
- WRENN ID
- veiled-gargoyle-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1981
- OS grid reference
- NX 977 749
- Coordinates
- 55.05804, -3.60264
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building consists of garden walls, gate piers, and a cottage located at Castledykes View on Glencaple Road in Dumfries, dating from around 1800. The cottage is a single-storey and attic structure with three bays and a basement at the rear. There is a small dry bridge to the north, which is likely from the same period.
The cottage features whitewashed rubble walls with contrasting painted ashlar margins. It has a central recessed panelled door on the east side, complete with a fanlight, and small-paned sash windows throughout. The roof has straight skews and end stacks, covered with graded slates. There are two dormers on the west side and three barred basement windows. A modern addition has been made to the north gable. The cottage is enclosed by rubble-built garden walls, and there are two rusticated ashlar square gate piers at the northeast corner.
The bridge is a short span with a single segmental arch made of brick, supported by rubble abutments, spanning over a cobbled loaning. It features low ashlar coping and plain, slender iron railings.
Local climate
Drybridge Over Wallace's Loaning, Castledykes View, Glencaple Road, Dumfries sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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