Durham House, Kirkpatrick Durham is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971.

Durham House, Kirkpatrick Durham

WRENN ID
upper-forge-vale
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
OS grid reference
NX 786 700
Coordinates
55.01056, -3.89946
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Durham House is an 1838 L-plan manse, designed by Mr Callander of Dumfries, with later 19th-century alterations. The symmetrical south frontage has three bays and two storeys. It is built in ashlar with red sandstone margins and quoins. A pilastered doorpiece features a recessed fanlight and panelled door. The ground floor has tripartite windows, corniced with stone mullions. Above, the first-floor windows are single-light sash and case windows with lying pane glazing. An eaves band and moulded cornice run along the top of the building. The roof is covered in concrete tiles, with corniced axial stacks. A projecting gabled wing extends to the east, with two storeys. This wing is constructed of rubble, with mainly 12-pane sashes. Within a walled courtyard, there are separately owned, unlisted L-plan outbuildings that were converted to domestic use in the 1980s, and which now contain many new window and door openings. Plans for the building are held in the Scottish Record Office, reference RHP 7857/8.

Local climate

Durham House, Kirkpatrick Durham 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 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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