Schoolhouse, Keir Mill is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. 1 related planning application.
Schoolhouse, Keir Mill
- WRENN ID
- watchful-doorway-auburn
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NX 859 931
- Coordinates
- 55.21913, -3.79486
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building comprises a former school and associated two-storey schoolhouse, constructed around 1880. It is arranged in an H-plan with the main elevation facing west. The construction is of stugged and squared rubble with ashlar dressings. The school portion, located to the north, features large mullioned and transomed gable windows. A small, sheltered porch adjoins the north side. The schoolhouse has mostly bipartite windows, and a lean-to porch is situated in the re-entrant angle, containing a pointed-headed doorway facing west. The roof has shaped skews with gabletted skewputts. Coped axial stacks rise from the roof, which is covered in slate. The building is set behind a low boundary wall constructed of coped ashlar.
Local climate
Schoolhouse, Keir Mill 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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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- 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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