Stable Block, Hill Of Burns, Creetown is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Stable Block, Hill Of Burns, Creetown
- WRENN ID
- last-zinc-dale
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 477 586
- Coordinates
- 54.89955, -4.37643
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This early 19th-century stable block comprises three piend-roofed, two-storey, three-bay buildings arranged around a courtyard. The west elevation is enclosed by a boundary wall incorporating a pair of elegantly decorated ashlar gatepiers. The stable block is constructed of rubble walling with granite quoins and polished red sandstone margins.
The northern range originally housed a cartshed with an arched entrance and stables, with hay lofts above. The hay lofts have been emptied, and a window has been re-opened in the first north range, featuring concrete jambs. The buildings are currently being converted into a dwellinghouse. The piend roofs are partially slated and partially covered with corrugated sheet metal. Boarded doors are present.
A rubble wall with red sandstone coping runs along the west side, punctuated by a pair of tall, square ashlar gatepiers. These gatepiers feature delicately incised detailing at the “necking,” a cornice, and ball finials.
The east wing has been reslated. Planning permission for a change of use and alterations was granted in 1985, but has since lapsed.
Local climate
Stable Block, Hill Of Burns, Creetown sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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