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

Sorbie House

WRENN ID
wild-keep-elder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 439 467
Coordinates
54.79164, -4.42828
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sorbie House, built in 1778, likely on the site of an earlier manse, is a 3-bay, 2-storey house with a single bay added to the west and a raised roofline from 1813. The exterior is made of painted rubble with painted raised margins. The original part features a central door, now with a modern timber and glass porch. It has single light windows with various types of glazing, including six uPVC sash and case windows with plate glass glazing, and two modern timber fixed-pane windows. The rear predominantly features uPVC sash and case windows.

To the west, there is a 19th-century, 2-storey addition with a single bay and sash and case windows with 2-pane plate glass glazing. To the east, there is a single-storey 19th-century wing also made of painted rubble. The roofline of the 18th-century section was raised to match the 1813 level. The house has sandstone end skews and both end and axial coped stacks, with thackstones and octagonal cans; the stack on the right gable has been removed, while the center stack is made of painted brick. The rear elevation features good graded slates with two rooflights, while the front has been reroofed in uniform blue slates. The rear elevation also includes a lower 2-storey wing and a flat-roofed single-storey porch.

Local climate

Sorbie 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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