Garlieston House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972.

Garlieston House

WRENN ID
quiet-keep-bramble
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
OS grid reference
NX 476 450
Coordinates
54.77759, -4.37068
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden and Gardener's Cottage at Galloway House date from the late 18th and 19th centuries. The garden is unusually large and is bordered by the gardener's cottage at the southeast corner and Garlieston House to the south.

The walled garden features polygonal coped rubble walls, with internal subdividing walls made of brick. Most openings are designed as depressed arches. There are long lean-to glasshouse ranges against the walls, although a small section of the wall near the cottage has collapsed. Various service buildings made of lean-to and gabled brick, some with polychrome brickwork, are attached to the outer walls, featuring round-arched openings and small-pane glazing patterns. Additional structures include a brick store shed, a cold frame with underground heating, and a pear-house with a heated wall.

The Gardener's Cottage has its rear wall integrated into the garden walls. It is a two-storey rubble building with a piend roof, along with an attached single-storey outbuilding to the north. The front elevation has been altered, with some windows inserted or widened. It retains some original sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing patterns, while the rear elevation is less altered, featuring single light sash and case windows with multi-pane glazing. The first-floor windows have 3-4 pane horizontal upper sashes and 8-pane lower sashes. The cottage has a slate roof with a coped off-centre axial stack and a brick wallhead stack to the southwest, as well as cast-iron rainwater goods.

Garlieston House, dating from the 19th century, is a three-bay, two-storey gabled house with a gabled projection to the rear garden, located at the southern corner of the walled garden. It appears to have been refronted in brick, originally constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings, and the gabled wing at the rear is painted. The bays on the southwest elevation are widely spaced, featuring a central glazed door flanked by windows at the ground level and two windows above, with bipartites in the outer bays on each floor. The sash and case windows have 4-pane upper sashes and 2-pane lower sashes. The house has coped stone end stacks and is topped with graded grey slates and an ashlar ridge. A modern conservatory addition is located in the re-entrant angle formed with the garden walls and the return gable.

Local climate

Garlieston House 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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