Arkland is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. Farmhouse, steading. 2 related planning applications.
Arkland
- WRENN ID
- long-vestry-auburn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, steading
- OS grid reference
- NX 803 979
- Coordinates
- 55.26084, -3.8843
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Arkland is an asymmetrical 2-storey farmhouse built around 1830, featuring a detached small courtyard steading to the rear (west). The building is constructed from whin rubble with ashlar dressings and is whitewashed, with roofs covered in graded slates.
Originally, the house was an east-facing single-storey, 3-bay cottage with Tudor hood-moulds and crow-stepped gables. It was significantly enlarged to the south and east, likely by Charles Howitt around 1860. The original central door has been converted into a window, and a gabled wall-head dormer has been added. The southern addition has 2-bay elevations with bipartite windows and gabled wall-head dormers. The east elevation features an advanced gable with a gabled porch in the re-entrant angle and saw-toothed skews. The west (rear) wing was originally single-storey and includes a cantilevered forestair and a later porch on the west gable. The house has sash windows throughout, with small-paned glazing in the circa 1860 windows and otherwise 12-pane glazing.
The steading is built around a cobbled quadrangular courtyard and consists of two L-plan blocks separated by courtyard entries. The tall north range includes a cartshed and a segmental-arched barn door leading to the courtyard, with other openings being square-headed. It features boarded and glazed loft openings and slit ventilators. The other ranges are mostly single-storey, with the west range being taller at the north, also featuring boarded and glazed loft openings and straight skews.
Local climate
Arkland sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 40 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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