Tonderghie House is a Grade A listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. House.

Tonderghie House

WRENN ID
pale-quoin-bracken
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 July 1972
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 443 356
Coordinates
54.69194, -4.41713
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Tonderghie House is a mid-18th century symmetrical house featuring two storeys, an attic, and a basement, with single-storey pavilions on either side connected by curved corridors. The exterior is finished with harled walling and has raised painted margins and angles.

On the north elevation, there are steps with a wrought-iron handrail leading up to a margined doorway, which contains a panelled door topped with a fanlight. Flanking the main door are single light windows, and there are three smaller single light windows on the first floor. All windows are sash and case with 12-pane glazing. The eaves cornice is present, along with a pair of later 19th-century gabled timber dormers.

The south elevation features all single light windows, with a 20th-century addition at the center that includes a projecting harled full-height bay with a brick construction and a piended slate roof. Both elevations have a moulded eaves cornice, end skews with skewputts, and tall coped end stacks with thackstanes, as well as a sandstone ridge and well-maintained graded slate roofs.

The pavilions have curving quadrant corridors with a moulded eaves cornice and single basement windows. The original three-bay fronts have undergone some alterations, particularly at the rear. The single windows have painted margins, and the pavilions feature end skews, coped stacks, and good graded slate roofs. The rear of the east pavilion includes large vehicle entrances.

Inside, most doors and doorcases are original, and many shutters, along with some panelling and chimneypieces, remain, showcasing good quality 18th-century craftsmanship.

Local climate

Tonderghie 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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