Dildawn House is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. 1 related planning application.
Dildawn House
- WRENN ID
- young-spandrel-jay
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1971
- Address
- Dildawn House, DG7 1SE
- OS grid reference
- NX 727 592
- Coordinates
- 54.91206, -3.98691
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dildawn House is a large house dated 1813, with a probable 18th-century core in its northeastern wing. The house was significantly altered in 1852 with additions by the architect John Dobson. It is two storeys high with a basement.
The main elevation is of rubble construction and features four bays, with the central bays slightly projecting. A mid-19th century projecting porch has pilasters at the corners, and a Roman Doric porch with balustrading is centrally placed. Most windows are single-light sash windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, although some ground floor windows have a lower sash of plate glass. There is a moulded eaves cornice and a raised blocking course above the central bay.
The garden front includes a central three-window bow. A single-storey projecting bay, added in the later 19th century, is present to the left, featuring a tripartite window. All other windows match the glazing pattern of the main elevation. A full-height canted bay window (dated 1852) extends the entire height of the southwestern flank, with a cornice and blocking course. A two-storey L-shaped wing extends to the northeast and now houses the kitchens, but it may be part of an earlier structure.
The interior features a glazed vestibule door and mainly early to mid-19th century plasterwork and door cases. A notable late-19th century chimneypiece is also present.
A rectangular walled garden is enclosed by coped rubble walls. A pair of round-arched gateways, topped by a decorative corbelled castellated parapet, mark the garden's entry.
Local climate
Dildawn House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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