Low Gardens House, Drumlanrig Estate is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Gardeners house.
Low Gardens House, Drumlanrig Estate
- WRENN ID
- small-rood-swallow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Gardeners house
- OS grid reference
- NX 857 982
- Coordinates
- 55.26473, -3.79929
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Low Gardens House is a picturesque two-storey cottage ornée designed by architect William Burn around 1831 for the gardener of the Drumlanrig Estate. The house features mostly mullioned and transom windows, various roof levels, and advanced gables with deeply projecting eaves supported on brackets. It has decorative barge boards with pendants and an open verandah facing east.
The east elevation has an advanced gable on the left, which includes a canted ground floor window that is corbelled above to a square shape, with a similar treatment on the inner north gable. The verandah, which has a gabled outer bay above the steps, showcases three basket-arched bays with a strapwork patterned parapet and two dormers above. There is a blind doorway in a dummy porch on the south side. The house has wall-head or axial stacks, mostly featuring grouped diamond flues. A low service wing adjoins the west wall and extends south, although a second wing has now been demolished.
Local climate
Low Gardens House, Drumlanrig Estate 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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