Black Loch Boathouse, Lochinch Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 2000. Boathouse.

Black Loch Boathouse, Lochinch Castle

WRENN ID
white-gable-poplar
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 2000
Type
Boathouse
OS grid reference
NX 108 618
Coordinates
54.91549, -4.95337
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Black Loch Boathouse at Lochinch Castle is a single-storey, three-bay structure built in the later 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with raised cream quoins and dressings around the openings, featuring timber framework in the gables and timber bracketed eaves.

On the southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, there is a three-bay layout with an advanced central gabled entrance porch. This porch has a timber door, although the decorative hinge is missing, and a dentilled lintel above it. Flanking the porch are slit windows.

The northeast elevation, facing the loch, has a single bay with a square-headed opening supported by timber shouldered brackets and a dentilled lintel above the timber framework.

The southwest elevation also has a single bay featuring a bipartite window at the center, with a dentilled lintel above the timber framework.

On the northwest elevation, there is a three-bay layout with a central gabled bay that includes a bipartite window and a dentilled lintel, flanked by slit windows.

The boathouse has timber window frames and a grey slate roof adorned with fishscale banding, decorative iron ridging, and a finial. Inside, there is stone perimeter paving and a timber-beamed roof.

Local climate

Black Loch Boathouse, Lochinch Castle 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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