Walled Garden, Knocknalling 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, Knocknalling House

WRENN ID
sacred-granite-curlew
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 596 848
Coordinates
55.13829, -4.20293
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

An earlier to mid-19th century country house with restrained Tudor gothic detailing, alongside a large walled garden. The house is built of squared rubble walling with squared quoins and polished red sandstone dressings. The south elevation has five bays, with prominently advanced, ball-finialled gabled end bays. It features bipartite windows with four-centred arch heads beneath squared hoodmoulds. A doorway has been created in the inner left bay, with double-leaf doors. The windows are sash and case with a two-pane plate glass glazing pattern. First-floor windows break the eaves line, with triangular ball-finialled gablets and a square 'gablet' head over the centre bay.

The east elevation is asymmetrical, with a single-storey, gabled entrance porch featuring ball finials to the right. Windows are detailed similarly to the south elevation. The west elevation has three bays, with a single-storey projecting square bay to the centre, topped with a parapet and ball finials. First-floor windows are set within square-headed dormers. Adjoining to the north is a three-bay, lower kitchen wing with a piended roof. Some ground floor windows have twelve-pane glazing, while others use the earlier glazing pattern. A lower, two-storey, irregular elevation extends to the north, incorporating single-storey buildings grouped around a small, partially flagged service court. The court has a coped wall with ball finials and a bronze Herakles statue in the al antica style.

Tall diamond stacks are positioned axially and along the wallhead, and the building is roofed with slate. North of the house is a large walled garden on a sloping site, enclosed by a coped stepped rubble wall with numerous ball finials. The property forms a group with Knocknalling Barn and Stableyard.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Knocknalling House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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