Front Lodge And Gateway, Barjarg Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
Front Lodge And Gateway, Barjarg Tower
- WRENN ID
- salt-balcony-crimson
- 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
- OS grid reference
- NX 878 899
- Coordinates
- 55.19063, -3.76341
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Probably dating to around 1810, Front Lodge and Gateway form a distinctive roadside feature at Barjarg Tower. The lodge is a single-story, three-bay building, originally designed to adjoin a tall, arched gateway. A cottage was added in the second half of the 19th century, with a later attic story. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, incorporating hood-moulds and roll-moulded pointed-arched openings.
The east-facing elevation of the lodge has a central door, with two ground floor windows and a single window in the gable of each crow-stepped gable. The windows have a distinctive diagonal glazing pattern. Corniced end stacks rise from the roof, which is covered in slate. A rear section projects outwards. The gateway features a tall main gate with a lion mask as its keystone, alongside a smaller pedestrian gate positioned beside the lodge. The enclosing walls step down to the east and are decorated with carved animal heads, linked to the main policies wall. The iron gates are designed to resemble traditional ‘yett’ gates.
According to local accounts, the iron gates originated from the old Dumfries jail, constructed around 1579 and demolished around 1802. Given the reuse of stonework in the ground floor openings, it is conceivable that some of this material also came from the demolished jail. Information provided by the owner supplements these details.
Local climate
Front Lodge And Gateway, Barjarg Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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