Walled Garden, Shambellie House, New Abbey is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Garden. 1 related planning application.

Walled Garden, Shambellie House, New Abbey

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
Type
Garden
OS grid reference
NX 960 664
Coordinates
54.98183, -3.62603
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Walled Garden at Shambellie House in New Abbey likely dates from around 1860. It is a quadrangular garden, featuring a later glasshouse at the north and a shed, which may have been a former boiler house, located to the northeast. The walls are primarily constructed of white granite rubble, topped with red ashlar coping, and they rise up at the north side.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Shambellie House, 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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