Midpark South is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971.
Midpark South
- WRENN ID
- odd-chapel-reed
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 986 742
- Coordinates
- 55.0526, -3.58813
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Midpark North is a two-storey, three-bay house that appears to be from the early 19th century. It has been significantly enlarged by a taller, asymmetrical addition to the south, designed by James Barbour, which also incorporates earlier fabric raised three-quarters of a course at the front (west) and above the ground floor to the rear. The building is constructed of squared rubble with ashlar margins, all painted.
The west elevation features a corniced central porch supported by three-quarter engaged Doric columns. The ground floor window to the right has been doubled in size by the insertion of an identical window. The house has sash windows throughout, with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is hipped with parallel ridges and has axial stacks over each, topped with corniced octagonal flues, and is covered with graded slate.
Adjoining the north wall is a tall L-plan outbuilding that forms an additional low office range in the rear courtyard. This outbuilding includes a flat-headed former cartshed with carved stone incorporated above.
The addition is also two storeys high and built of coursed squared red rubble with polished dressing. Its two-bay west elevation features a large segmental-headed mullioned and transomed stair window on the left, next to the earlier house, and a two-storey large canted window in the advanced right bay that breaks through the eaves and has a faceted roof. The elaborate entrance bay to the south has a round-headed entrance below a corbelled oriel, flanked by pilaster strips and topped with a gabled head. A tall wall head stack rises from a projecting chimney breast, and there are corniced stacks.
Inside, there are some marble chimney pieces and cornice plasterwork. All roofs are slated, with bracketed eaves.
Local climate
Midpark South sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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