Castlewigg Hotel is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Castlewigg Hotel

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Hotel
OS grid reference
NX 433 428
Coordinates
54.75604, -4.43626
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Castlewigg Hotel, built around 1840-1845, is a two-storey, three-bay house with single-storey wings on either side. The structure is made of rubble with polished, painted red sandstone used for the angles and window margins. The west front features a central two-storey main block that has dormer-headed windows on the first floor. To the north, there is an L-shaped single-storey wing with a gable facing east, and to the south, a single-storey wing that connects to a rectangular block with a single storey and attic to the southwest.

The main block includes a central single-storey porch with a piend roof, and the ground floor windows have hood moulds. There are three gablet dormer-headed windows that break through the eaves. Most of the windows are sash and case with 10-pane glazing, although three first-floor windows are modern uPVC with mock astragals. The building features coped end stacks with octagonal cans and timber-bracketed overhanging eaves. The north wing has bipartite hoodmoulded windows and a doorway with a modern door at the re-entrant angle, possibly serving as a farm office. The south wing contains a bipartite window, while the southeast block has a gable with three windows facing east, including a central hoodmoulded window. The south elevation has three bays with modern flat-roofed dormers on the first floor.

To the west, there is a two-storey rear wing attached to the central block. The ground floor features sash and case windows with small-pane glazing, while the first floor has modern uPVC windows. The building is topped with good graded slate roofs.

Local climate

Castlewigg Hotel 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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