Brydekirk Mains is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Farmhouse.
Brydekirk Mains
- WRENN ID
- tilted-footing-laurel
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NY 186 711
- Coordinates
- 55.02795, -3.27445
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Brydekirk Mains is a farmhouse and steading built mostly in the first half of the 19th century, incorporating a fragment of St Bride's tower at the southeast end of the steading court. The structure is primarily rubble-built with ashlar dressings, and the house is now dry-dashed with painted margins. The roofs are mainly covered with graded slates.
The house is two storeys high with four bays, although the northernmost bay is not original. The entrance is centrally located in a modern porch, and most of the windows are sash windows, retaining 6-paned glazing only in the top sashes. The house features straight skews, end stacks, and a rear wing.
The steading consists of plain whitewashed ranges surrounding an open court. The tall southern and western ranges have some blocked openings, while the low eastern range includes a long roof ventilator.
The adjoining tower, located on the eastern gable of the southern range, has been much altered and is in poor condition. The upper part of the eastern wall appears to be rebuilt, with part of the corbel course surviving. The wall facing the courtyard has a two-storey elevation with large slappings and may also be rebuilt. The garden wall contains re-used stones.
Local climate
Brydekirk Mains sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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