Dunskey Kennels And Kennel House is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1998. House.
Dunskey Kennels And Kennel House
- WRENN ID
- swift-foundation-bittern
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1998
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NX 003 556
- Coordinates
- 54.85541, -5.11125
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dunskey Kennels and Kennel House is a building designed by James Kennedy Hunter between 1901 and 1904. It is a two-storey house with a basement, featuring a three-bay gabled rectangular plan and a lean-to at the rear, finished in harl.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has coped steps leading to a central entrance with a recessed timber door and fanlight. To the right at ground level, there is a narrow window, with a single window directly above it on the first floor. Flanking the entrance are single windows on both the ground and first floors, and there is a small basement window to the outer left.
On the north elevation, there is a narrow single window at ground level and a central single window on the first floor of the main house. To the outer left, there is a lean-to and a flat-roofed extension with a timber entrance door and a narrow single window.
The west elevation features a basement entrance to the outer right and a single window at ground level to the outer left. The east elevation has two single windows at ground level in the center and a ball finial on the coped extension.
The building predominantly has 12-pane timber sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, coped gablehead stacks, and circular cans. The cast-iron rainwater goods are also notable.
The interiors were not seen in 1997.
To the south of the Kennel House, there are single-storey kennels with an irregular plan, also finished in harl. The entrance is marked by iron railings, which divide the bays, and there is a semi-circular window to the outer left.
Local climate
Dunskey Kennels And Kennel House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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