Ardoch is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Ardoch
- WRENN ID
- narrow-gravel-foxglove
- 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
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 634 832
- Coordinates
- 55.125, -4.1436
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ardoch is a farmhouse from the mid-18th century, featuring two storeys and a five-bay design. The exterior is harled with a boulder base course and has walls that are 3 to 4 feet thick. The first-floor windows extend through the wallhead, and there is a 20th-century glazed lean-to porch at the center with a margined doorway. The windows include single light designs with polished margins and 4-pane sash windows. The roof has five piended dormer heads that break through the eaves, along with corniced end stacks, thackstanes, a sandstone ridge, and slate roofing.
At the rear, there is a three-window elevation with deeply recessed 4-pane sashes. A single-storey scullery, likely added in the early 20th century, is located at the back. Additionally, there is a single-storey gabled wing to the west made of painted rubble, along with a lean-to addition on the east side.
Local climate
Ardoch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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