Drumcork Farm is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Farmhouse.
Drumcork Farm
- WRENN ID
- slow-string-scarlet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 882 971
- Coordinates
- 55.256, -3.75986
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Drumcork Farm is a substantial 2-storey farmhouse designed by architect William Burn, built around 1834. The farmhouse is situated on a brow, with a service wing positioned on the slope at the rear, opening into a courtyard at the basement level. The building has an asymmetrical design, featuring advanced and recessed gabled bays on the main elevations.
On the southeast elevation, there is a canted ground floor window in a wide inner gabled bay, along with a gabled porch connected to the central bay on the left. This porch includes a wide basket-arched opening, a boarded door with sidelights, and a fanlight. To the right, in the re-entrant angle, there is a full-height gabled square bay, with an additional door alongside it. Nearby, there is a square privy above steps leading to the courtyard, which has a shallow pyramidal roof with projecting eaves.
The courtyard elevation consists of three stepped units: a tall gable of the house on the left, a 3-bay inner service wing with a central door, and a cartshed on the right featuring a segmental-arched opening. The building has straight or saw-toothed skews, wallhead and axial stacks, and is roofed with graded slates.
Local climate
Drumcork Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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