Craigcleuch House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Mansion. 1 related planning application.

Craigcleuch House

WRENN ID
guardian-cobalt-merlin
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 August 1971
Type
Mansion
OS grid reference
NY 344 868
Coordinates
55.17136, -3.0313
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Craigcleuch House is a small-scale, two-storey neo-Jacobean mansion built around 1875, inspired by the work of William Burn from the 1840s. The building features symmetrical design elements, including gables topped with spike finials and a variety of mullioned and transomed windows. To the west, there is a low service court that shares similar architectural details. The exterior is constructed of stugged grey coursers with polished dressings and raised long and short worked quoins.

On the southeast elevation, steps lead up to a central open porch with a round-arched opening. Above this porch is a two-storey octagon with round-headed upper lights and a bell-cast roof finished with lead and topped by a weathervane finial. The outer bays of the building are advanced and gabled, featuring two-storey canted windows that are linked to the porch by arches at the ground level. The windows are plate-glass sash, and there are continuous band courses between the floors and at the eaves, along with a cornice and pierced balustrades. The building has end and axial stacks with grouped octagonal flues, and the roofs are covered with graded slates. The north elevation also includes canted windows in the outer bays, while the east flank is asymmetrical. The service court consists of two parallel two-bay ranges that connect to a screen wall to the west, which features a round-arched pend and a timber gate.

Inside, the house has a spacious central hall that is well-lit from above, with a staircase and rooms leading off from it. The interior includes some elaborate cornice plasterwork and marble chimney pieces, one of which in the drawing room is designed in a Gothic style.

Local climate

Craigcleuch House 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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