Farmhouse, The Knowe is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986. 1 related planning application.
Farmhouse, The Knowe
- WRENN ID
- small-spire-honey
- 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
- NS 718 127
- Coordinates
- 55.39156, -4.02461
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Knowe is an earlier 19th century farmhouse with an associated steading, situated within a cobbled courtyard. The farmhouse itself is a 2-storey, 3-bay structure with additional, asymmetrical ranges extending to the rear (west). The house is constructed of squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Its east elevation features a depressed-arched doorway within a central gabled porch of ashlar. All window and door openings are hood-moulded. The windows are a mix of single casement windows and sash windows with 12-pane glazing. The roofline exhibits saw-toothed skews, and has corniced end stacks. A single bay of the rear range is deeply recessed to the right. The rear courtyard elevation is asymmetrical.
The steading comprises three ranges arranged in a U-plan. The west range is a tall barn, featuring two segmental-arched cartways – one partially blocked – as well as external doors on both levels and a modern forestair. The north range incorporates axial roof ventilators and a full-length, long barn addition to the roadside elevation. The south range includes a 2-storey former bothy at its eastern end. The majority of the buildings are roofed with graded slates.
Local climate
Farmhouse, The Knowe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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