Gardener's Cottage, Physgill House is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979.
Gardener's Cottage, Physgill House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-terrace-frost
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- OS grid reference
- NX 429 366
- Coordinates
- 54.69992, -4.43934
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Gardener’s Cottage, part of the complex associated with Physgill House, is probably from the early 19th century. It forms part of a large walled garden, linked by a stable and cottage block. The walled garden is enclosed by rubble walls approximately 14 inches high, with coping stones, and divides into two compartments.
The stable and cottage block is a low, two-storey range constructed of rubble, with later cottage bays that have been partly harled. There are irregular openings with segmental carriage arches, which are now blocked. Above these are hayloft windows set under the eaves, and a swept hayloft dormer is located above the cottage bays. A pend, or gateway, runs through the cottage addition, and there are various other windows.
The windows have a variety of glazing. The stable bays are roofed with graded slates, with a sandstone ridge and a brick wallhead stack. The cottage bays have more modern roofing, along with later ridge stacks.
The statutory address for the listing was revised in 2018 to correct a typographical error, and it was previously listed as 'Physgill House, Walled Garden and Stables'.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage, Physgill House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,350 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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