Textile Mill, Kindar Cottages, New Abbey is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Cottages.

Textile Mill, Kindar Cottages, New Abbey

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
4 November 1971
Type
Cottages
OS grid reference
NX 964 659
Coordinates
54.97735, -3.61942
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a textile mill located at Kindar Cottages in New Abbey, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It has a long rectangular plan and is two storeys high with twelve regular bays. The structure is built from rubble, with some parts painted. All openings are square-headed.

On the east elevation, there is an off-centre loft door above a forestair, and a door at ground level. The southmost bay has blocked windows, and some west-facing windows are also blocked, while the remaining windows are boarded over. There is a cart opening on the west wall. The building features straight skews, brick end stacks, and is roofed with graded slates.

Local climate

Textile Mill, Kindar Cottages, New Abbey sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,140 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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