Closeburn Mains is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Stable, farm steading, cottage. 1 related planning application.

Closeburn Mains

WRENN ID
high-pavement-river
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
Type
Stable, farm steading, cottage
Address
Closeburn Mains, DG3 5HH
OS grid reference
NX 908 927
Coordinates
55.21647, -3.71741
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Closeburn Mains is a building likely constructed around 1780, contemporary with Closeburn Hall. The stables are now used as a farm steading and consist of four blocks, mostly harled with painted margins, arranged around a quadrangular courtyard. The layout features an asymmetrical T-plan range linked to the rear (east) with a second courtyard that is open to the north but has been largely filled by a haybarn. The structure is two storeys with lofts, and the openings are mostly square-headed, with some segmental-headed.

The west elevation was originally symmetrical, featuring seven bays with a pedimented inner bay that has a segmental-arched pend, similar to the blocked cart-arches in the outer bays, and an oculus in the tympanum. There are also a pair of large square-headed cart arches on either side, with windows now inserted, and a single window on the first floor/loft. The south return elevation has irregularly placed openings, including cottage doors and corniced stacks.

The east range includes a cartshed with a series of square-headed openings on the north and south elevations, most of which are blocked and partly obscured at the south by a ramp. A piend-roofed dovecot rises above the main roof level at the east. The roofs are mostly slated and sweep down over lean-tos at either end of the east elevation.

Local climate

Closeburn Mains sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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