Kirkconnel is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Farmhouse.
Kirkconnel
- WRENN ID
- floating-minaret-linden
- 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
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 675 603
- Coordinates
- 54.92, -4.06843
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kirkconnel is a late 18th century to early 19th century farmhouse featuring a two-storey design with a U-plan steading. The farmhouse has a rectangular, symmetrical three-bay main block with a central gabled porch and a gabled M-roofed wing at the rear. It includes a boulder basecourse and harled walling with raised painted margins. The windows are single light, sash and case style with 4-pane glazing. Notably, above the left ground window is a small heraldic panel displaying the initials and arms of William Gordon of Kirkconnel.
The west side has a modern French door to the left, with two 12-pane sashes on the first floor. The rear elevation features a single-storey lean-to. The building is topped with sandstone ridge and skews, slate roofs, and coped end stacks. The interior layout has been altered at the rear in modern times, although some fielded panel shutters remain in the south block.
The steading consists of two main ranges, forming an L-plan with a single storey and attic to the north and east of a square farmyard, and a south range with single-storey byres and a central two-storey mill, which has been gutted. All the steadings are constructed of painted rubble and have well-graded slate roofs.
Local climate
Kirkconnel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 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 96% 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 0.2°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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