Somerton House Hotel, Carlisle Road, Lockerbie is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Somerton House Hotel, Carlisle Road, Lockerbie

WRENN ID
lapsed-chapel-sedge
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
Hotel
OS grid reference
NY 136 805
Coordinates
55.11223, -3.3552
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Somerton House Hotel is a later 19th century villa that has been converted into a hotel and features "Thomsonesque" Greek revival ornamentation both inside and out. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, with additional full-height canted bays at the corners. It is constructed of red ashlar stone with unmargined openings and incised ornamentation above the window heads. The first-floor windows are adorned with pilasters that rise from the jambs.

A central porch features a pilastered doorway and curved side walls, with carved lions flanking decorative bands between the floors. The main roof is piended and platformed, covered with slate and lead, and includes decorative cast-iron work on the platform. The chimney stacks have incised ornamentation, and the canted bays have facetted roofs that integrate with the main roof, topped with eagle finials. There are rear wings, and a modern addition has been made to the south flank.

Inside, the hotel boasts neo-Egyptian doorcases and cornice plasterwork that includes discs and elongated egg-and-dart detailing. The property is set behind a low boundary wall with piers that feature incised ornamentation.

Local climate

Somerton House Hotel, Carlisle Road, Lockerbie 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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