Eliock House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Mansion house. 2 related planning applications.

Eliock House

WRENN ID
peeling-panel-gilt
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
Mansion house
Address
Eliock House, DG4 6LD
OS grid reference
NS 796 074
Coordinates
55.3463, -3.89894
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Eliock House is a composite mansion with a tower that likely dates from the late 16th century. The building has an H-plan layout and features a courtyard to the west, with wings linked at the east by a crenellated low projection added around 1914. The house is mostly three storeys tall, although the north wing has been fire damaged, is now derelict, and has been partly demolished at the east end.

The inner range includes a rectangular house dated 1658, which projects from the south end of the tower house. It features a bolection-moulded doorway leading to the courtyard and a tall, central, circular stair turret that has a conical roof with a dovecot at the upper level. The east elevation has three bays, with a fourth bay that is blank due to a rebuilt wallhead stack. This elevation is harled, while the rest of the building is primarily constructed of grey or pink ashlar, polished towards the courtyard, with the south wing being droved. The windows are small-paned sashes. The tower house retains some original openings and gun ports, and both the north and south wings have narrow west gables, with the gable on the north wing heightened around 1914. The south wing is mainly from the 18th or early 19th century, but its current form may not be original. It has a six-bay long south elevation and a piended three-bay south elevation, with corniced stacks and slate roofs.

Inside the south wing, the first floor has been partly remodeled in the early 20th century in the "Adam" style, while retaining some original features. Some rooms have been narrowed to create a corridor facing the courtyard, and there are several good chimney pieces from the 18th to early 20th centuries, along with a cantilevered stone stair.

Local climate

Eliock House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% 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 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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