The Old Schoolhouse, 34 High Street, Lochmaben is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988. House.
The Old Schoolhouse, 34 High Street, Lochmaben
- WRENN ID
- tilted-bracket-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NY 082 824
- Coordinates
- 55.12815, -3.44012
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Schoolhouse, located at 34 High Street in Lochmaben, is a notable building designed by the architect, probably Walter Newall, around 1830. This unusual double-pile, two-storey house is set back from the street, featuring a central main entrance on its otherwise plain twin-gabled northern side. The exterior is finished with painted stugged and squared rubble, accented by chunky ashlar margins. The entrance includes a panelled door topped by a tall fanlight and is sheltered by a pedimented canopy.
On the main western elevation, there are mullioned windows, with two shallow projecting tripartite windows at the ground floor and three bipartite windows above, all linked to an eaves band. The eastern elevation has three bays, with a central door that is currently blocked at the southeast corner, and multi-paned glazing on the first floor. Throughout the building, small-paned sash windows are present. The roofs are shallow-pitched, with skews running horizontally over skewputts, and feature corbelled end stacks with diamond flues. The roof is covered with graded slates.
Local climate
The Old Schoolhouse, 34 High Street, Lochmaben sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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