Mossbank, Racks is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Cottage.
Mossbank, Racks
- WRENN ID
- hushed-barrel-rye
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NY 030 743
- Coordinates
- 55.05439, -3.51894
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mossbank, located at Racks, is a pair of adjoining single-storey cottages built likely in the second half of the 18th century. Each cottage features three bays and a central boarded door. The buildings are constructed from rubble and are whitewashed, with contrasting painted margins. The windows have six-pane upper sashes and three-pane lower sashes, except for one window that has four panes. The cottages have straight skews and corniced end stacks, and they probably have a rebuilt slate roof.
Local climate
Mossbank, Racks sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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