Burnhead is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Farmhouse.

Burnhead

WRENN ID
eastward-gallery-winter
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
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NY 192 812
Coordinates
55.11883, -3.26748
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Burnhead is a farmhouse built in the earlier to mid-19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure featuring a recessed low east wing. The building is constructed of whin rubble with red ashlar dressings, margins, and rusticated quoins.

On the southeast elevation, there is a central porch supported by Roman Doric columns, leading to a panelled door with a fanlight above. The ground floor has sash windows with a cornice and a four-pane glazing pattern, while the first floor features twelve-pane windows. The building has a base course and eaves course, with corniced end stacks and a piended roof covered in graded slates. The flanks of the building are two bays wide, and the piended wing has a blank south wall. The north elevation includes two added porches and a tall, key-stoned, round-arched stair window, also with a piended M-roof.

Inside, the farmhouse features decorative cast-iron stair balusters and cornice plasterwork. There is also a low piended outbuilding or garage located to the northeast.

Local climate

Burnhead sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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