Kinharvie is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.

Kinharvie

WRENN ID
tangled-pilaster-khaki
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 June 1986
OS grid reference
NX 927 667
Coordinates
54.98411, -3.67754
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Chapel at Kinharvie is a substantial shooting lodge built around 1850, which incorporates an early 19th century three-bay house. It stands two storeys high with a raised basement and features a private chapel in the southeast re-entrant angle, resulting in an asymmetrical gabled appearance.

The original house is constructed of painted rubble with rusticated quoins, while the later additions are made of squared white granite with contrasting red ashlar dressings. On the south elevation, the original house has three bays, with the outer bays being broader and featuring single windows. Steps lead down to a round-headed central door with sidelights, all beneath a canopied gabled porch. The first floor, which is an addition, has gabled bays with bipartite windows that have lugged dressings.

The chapel's east wall is curved and recessed on the left, with a wing behind it. A two-bay right wing is also recessed and features gables, along with a tall narrow cross window that lights the stair. Throughout the building, there are single and mullioned windows, some of which are canted and corbelled to square, with gables and gabled wall-head dormers. Some gables are barge-boarded, and there are bracketted eaves. Some chimney stacks have been rebuilt in brick, and the roofs are slated.

The chapel itself is also raised on a basement and features geometric-traceried windows. A larger south-facing window rises above the eaves, adorned with decorative barge boards on the gable. Other windows flank a central blind opening on the east wall, which has columned jambs and a gabled head.

Inside the chapel, the timbered roof is supported at the east end by corbelled engaged columns with foliated capitals resting on foliated corbels. The sanctuary windows are made of leaded glass.

Local climate

Kinharvie sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,160 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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