Glass House, Drumlanrig Estate is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Glass house.
Glass House, Drumlanrig Estate
- WRENN ID
- distant-eave-fern
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Glass house
- OS grid reference
- NX 853 991
- Coordinates
- 55.27297, -3.80627
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Glass House at Drumlanrig Estate was designed by architect Charles Howitt and built around 1877. It is a large, 10-bay, lectern-shaped structure that features a unique design, rising over the rear wall to create a buttressed clerestory. At the back (north), there is a lower lean-to that serves as a boiler house, store, and office, extending the full length of the glass house.
The glass house has a polished red ashlar base and vertical supports that carry the roof timbers, with a door on either side. The lean-to is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and includes three doors facing north, along with four small-paned sash windows. The roof of the lean-to is continuous and covered with graded slates, and there is a modern boiler chimney.
Inside the glass house, there is continuous shelving along three sides and a perimeter passageway surrounding a rectangular bedding area, which has a red ashlar wall. Thin iron columns support the roof timbers in the bays.
Local climate
Glass House, Drumlanrig Estate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 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 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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