Culgruff House Hotel is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Culgruff House Hotel
- WRENN ID
- old-brick-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Culgruff House Hotel, DG7 3BB
- OS grid reference
- NX 738 667
- Coordinates
- 54.97925, -3.97332
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Culgruff House Hotel is an asymmetrical Baronial-style mansion built in 1889 by Charles William Stephens. The building is constructed from bull-faced red ashlar with polished margins and dressings. It has two storeys with attics and features a tall square water tower on the west side. The entrance front is designed in a butterfly shape, with projecting angled gabled bays flanking an off-centre gable that contains a centrally placed round-arched entrance leading to a conservatory or porch. The door is hood moulded and bull-nose chamfered, inscribed with "God's providence is mine inheritance" and dated 1889, and it opens as a double-leaf panelled door. Above the porch is a projecting canted oriel window, and to the left, there is a two-storey projecting window in the angled bay.
On the south elevation, there are three four-centred-arch pendants at the eaves, with embattled parapets connecting the terminal gables. To the left, two large full-height canted bay windows are present, and at the extreme left is the four-stage water tower, also featuring an embattled parapet. All bay and oriel windows have embattled parapets.
The windows throughout the building are mullioned and transomed, fitted with single-pane plate glass glazing. The roofs are steeply pitched and covered with slate, and there are corniced axial stacks. The rear elevation mainly consists of bipartite windows, with a fire escape located on the west gable.
Inside, the hotel boasts well-preserved woodwork on doors, shutters, and panelling. The drawing room features a strapwork plaster ceiling.
Local climate
Culgruff House Hotel sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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