Farmsteading, Black Park, Castle Douglas is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990.
Farmsteading, Black Park, Castle Douglas
- WRENN ID
- steep-stair-dust
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- OS grid reference
- NX 752 628
- Coordinates
- 54.94493, -3.94881
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Black Park is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse. It is constructed of painted rubble with polished raised angles and window margins. The building features a central projecting gabled porch. All windows are single light sashes with 12-pane glazing. The rear elevation is similar to the front but does not have polished margins. The farmhouse has flat skews, slate roofs, and corniced axial stacks.
Local climate
Farmsteading, Black Park, Castle Douglas sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow 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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