Hillhead is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Farmhouse.
Hillhead
- WRENN ID
- gentle-basalt-raven
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NX 930 724
- Coordinates
- 55.035, -3.67553
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hillhead is a farmhouse dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is a two-storey, three-bay structure with an adjoining steading on the east gable. The farmhouse faces north and is constructed of whitewashed rubble with painted ashlar margins. It features a gabled central porch made of brick, which is not original, and has a sunk basement at the west side. The windows are single sashes, with 12-pane glazing on the ground floor and mostly 6-pane glazing on the square first-floor windows, along with timber dormer heads. The building has straight skews and corniced end stacks.
The steading consists of two single-storey, three-bay units. One unit is a byre or shed that has two doors and a window, which adjoins the house, while a taller barn is located beyond it, featuring a single loft window above a square-headed cartway. Additionally, mill gearing is preserved on the east gable. The roofs of the buildings are covered with slate.
Local climate
Hillhead sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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