Balcarres, 6 High Street, Lochmaben is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Balcarres, 6 High Street, Lochmaben
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-zinc-scarlet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Balcarres, 6 High Street, Lochmaben, DG11 1NH
- OS grid reference
- NY 082 825
- Coordinates
- 55.12909, -3.44113
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Balcarres, located at 6 High Street in Lochmaben, is a fine house that likely dates from around 1771 or 1774, possibly incorporating earlier materials at the rear. This two-storey building, which has a cellar, features five bays and a shallow offset above the basement, with rear wings that create an open courtyard. The front of the house is finished in painted ashlar with margins, while the rest is made of whitewashed rubble.
The main (west) elevation includes a central door with two leaves, a plain fanlight, and is set within a lugged and corniced architrave, all approached by steps. It has sash windows with four-pane glazing set in wide margins, a low pend door to the right, and blocked openings for the basement. There is an eaves and lintel band, straight skews, and 19th-century end stacks. The roof is covered with graded slates. To the northeast, there is a two-storey rear wing, and a long single-storey outbuilding connects to 10 High Street. There is also a boarded loft opening above the pend and a detached outbuilding to the east, which continues behind 3 Queen Street.
Inside, the house features panelled doors within architraves, moulded cornices (some with dentils), and wooden stair balusters with bulbous newels.
Local climate
Balcarres, 6 High Street, Lochmaben sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- Radon risk assessment
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