Whitcastles House is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1988.
Whitcastles House
- WRENN ID
- little-chalk-vetch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1988
- OS grid reference
- NY 232 870
- Coordinates
- 55.1722, -3.20601
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Whitcastles House appears to date from the early 19th century, though it likely incorporates an earlier house, and has undergone some alterations. It is a two-storey, three-bay, double-pile farmhouse with twin-gabled ends. The exterior is whitewashed rubble with painted ashlar margins. The windows are mostly sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. A gabled porch was inserted centrally on the south elevation, flanked by bipartites with plate glass glazing. There are three windows on the first floor. Axial stacks are located at the ends and off-centre. The roofs are covered with graded slates, swept at the north end over a rear outshot, with the porch set in a re-entrant angle.
Local climate
Whitcastles House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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