Barskeoch Mains Farmsteading is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990.
Barskeoch Mains Farmsteading
- WRENN ID
- iron-frieze-solstice
- Grade
- C
- 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 607 832
- Coordinates
- 55.12427, -4.18455
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barskeoch Mains Farmsteading is a building of probable 18th-century origin, originally a single-storey cottage that was later raised and incorporated into a two-storey farmhouse dating to the early 19th century. Some reused window jambs, in a style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries, appear in the first-floor windows.
The front facade is wide and composed of three bays of painted rubble masonry. A 20th-century gabled porch of brick is positioned off-centre. Three evenly spaced four-pane sash and case windows are present on each floor, with a small additional window on the ground floor to the left. The upper-floor windows feature some reused dressings, including roll-moulded cills and checked back jambs.
The rear elevation is harled and has four-pane sash and case windows. The roof is slate-covered, with flat skews and a sandstone ridge. The end stacks are coped and topped with mainly octagonal cans.
Local tradition suggests that a tower house once stood near the site, and that cut stones from this structure were used in the construction of Barskeoch Mains. The site of Old Barskeoch Castle is not documented in the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments for Scotland (RCAHMS) inventories.
Local climate
Barskeoch Mains Farmsteading sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,460 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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