Garden Cottage, Arkleton is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1988. 1 related planning application.

Garden Cottage, Arkleton

WRENN ID
dim-ember-dust
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 July 1988
OS grid reference
NY 378 916
Coordinates
55.21478, -2.97828
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is a later 19th-century walled garden complex, including glasshouses and a gardener's cottage. The garden is enclosed by quadrangular walls constructed of rubble, with ashlar coping and brick lining, and buttresses. A lean-to glasshouse range runs along the north and south walls, extending the full length of the southern wall.

At the west end of the garden are square gate piers built of polished ashlar, topped with pyramidal caps finialed with balls. Modern wrought-iron gates are in place.

Located at the northwest end of the garden is a single-storey, three-bay brick-built gardener's cottage, with polychrome dressings. The west elevation features segmental-arched ground-floor openings. An off-centre door is positioned behind a gabled porch, which has bargeboards and is supported by slender columns. A small window is set within the gable above the porch. To the left is a bipartite window, and a single window is on the right bay. The roof is covered with slate and has a piended profile. The complex is associated with Arkleton House.

Local climate

Garden Cottage, Arkleton 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 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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