Walled Garden, Dildawn House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.
Walled Garden, Dildawn House
- WRENN ID
- young-steel-shade
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- OS grid reference
- NX 727 594
- Coordinates
- 54.91315, -3.98604
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Dildawn House dates to 1813, as indicated by a rainwater head, and likely incorporates an 18th-century house in its north-east (kitchen) wing. The house was significantly extended and altered in 1852 by the architect John Dobson. It is two storeys with a basement.
The main elevation has four bays, with the centre bays slightly projected. A mid-19th century projecting single-storey porch features pilasters at the angles, and a projecting Roman Doric porch with balustrading is centrally placed. The walls are constructed of rubble. Most windows are single-light sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, although some ground floor windows have a lower sash of plate glass. A moulded eaves cornice and a raised blocking course are visible above the centre bay.
The garden front includes a central three-window bow. A single-storey projecting bay from the later 19th century is located to the left, featuring a tripartite window. All other windows are single-light sash windows with the typical glazing pattern. A full-height canted bay window (1852) with a cornice and blocking course is situated on the south-west flank. A two-storey L-shaped wing extends to the north-east and now contains kitchens, potentially forming part of an earlier house.
The interior features a good, glazed vestibule door. Plasterwork and door cases are predominantly from the earlier to mid-19th century, with one notable late-19th century fireplace.
The garden is enclosed by a coped rubble wall. A pair of round-arched gateways are topped with a decorative corbelled castellated parapet.
Local climate
Walled Garden, Dildawn House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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