Old Manse, Quarrelwood is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. 1 related planning application.
Old Manse, Quarrelwood
- WRENN ID
- tall-keystone-barley
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NX 960 842
- Coordinates
- 55.14194, -3.63253
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Manse at Quarrelwood, probably dating to around 1798, is a two-storey, three-bay manse now connected to a restored Cameronian chapel. The manse is constructed of rubble with red ashlar margins, and has been whitewashed. A panelled door with an ogee-glazed fanlight sits within a round-arched, moulded doorway. Plain Venetian windows are on the ground floor in the outer bays, while the first floor has sash windows with 12-pane glazing. Straight skews are present, along with end stacks and a full-height rear wing.
The chapel was restored from a ruinous condition in 1969 by Anthony Curtis Wolfe and now serves as a library. It has an irregular, octagonal plan and a facetted roof. Three tall, round-headed windows are on the south side (with the central window originally a doorway); a square-headed window is to the east; and a blocked door, two 12-pane sashes and a wall-head stack are on the north side. All roofs are slated. The building is no longer in ecclesiastical use. A photograph of the chapel, without its roof, appears in the 1964 edition of Russel’s BOOK OF DUMFRIESSHIRE, on page 239.
Local climate
Old Manse, Quarrelwood sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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