Stables, Southwick House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Stables.
Stables, Southwick House
- WRENN ID
- cold-hearth-twilight
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Type
- Stables
- OS grid reference
- NX 929 571
- Coordinates
- 54.89778, -3.67076
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The stables at Southwick House, likely designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1885, consist of three two-storey granite buildings arranged in a U-shape around a courtyard, with a pend entrance on the east side. The courtyard elevations, as well as the entire east range, feature bull-faced broached granite walling with monolithic margins, while the rest of the structure is built from coursed rubble. The roofs are covered with slate.
The east range has a symmetrical elevation with a central pend, an advanced gabled center, and end bays. The west elevation, which originally had three cart arches at ground level, has been partly blocked and now includes domestic windows and doors due to its conversion for residential use. The pend features bull-faced and broached granite voussoirs, polished granite bands, and a timber-lined soffit. Above the pend is a timber and cast-iron clock housed in a fleche.
The north range contains stables on the east side, featuring three stalls with a hay loft above and feed chutes, while the west end includes a barn.
The west range originally served as coach houses but was converted to garages in the early 20th century. It features a full-width glazed canopy supported by cast-iron columns with timber and cast-iron brackets, along with decorative timber barge-boards.
Local climate
Stables, Southwick House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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