Hearse House, Dunscore is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 August 1992. 1 related planning application.
Hearse House, Dunscore
- WRENN ID
- sacred-barrel-cedar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1992
- OS grid reference
- NX 868 843
- Coordinates
- 55.14025, -3.77693
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a small, single-storey hearse house constructed of red sandstone ashlar and whinstone rubble, situated on a sloping site at the junction of two roads. The west gable is sandstone and features a tall, double-leaf boarded door. The east gable has a short coped chimney stack, a sandstone skew and rybats. The north wall is blank, while the south wall has a small window towards its east end. The east gable has lost a skew on its north side; a seat at the head likely supported a ball finial. A low, decaying rubble retaining wall is present to the west.
Hearse houses were traditionally a feature of parish provision, predominantly found in lowland Scotland, often located adjacent to parish churches. This is a rare and largely unaltered example of a hearse house that is separated from its original church, which contributes to its group value and warrants a listing.
Local climate
Hearse House, Dunscore sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,270 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 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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