Howcleuch is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988. Farmhouse, steading.
Howcleuch
- WRENN ID
- low-wicket-storm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, steading
- OS grid reference
- NY 150 764
- Coordinates
- 55.07511, -3.33229
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Howcleuch is a house, likely designed by David Bryce around 1867, accompanied by a detached steading that may have also been modified by him.
The house is a single-storey and attic, three-bay farmhouse featuring a low west wing with a T-plan roofline. It is constructed from stugged ashlar coursers with polished dressings. The wide bipartite windows have wooden mullions, and there are bracketed eaves. The south elevation showcases an advanced gable on the left, a gabled timber porch in the re-entrant angle, and a wall-head dormer on the left. It has apex and wallhead stacks, along with a projecting chimney breast in the gable of the west wing. The entire structure is roofed with graded slates.
The steading is a large complex primarily built in the 19th century, consisting mainly of single-storey ranges. The northern ranges feature loft openings that break through the eaves and have pedimented dormer heads. The steading is rubble-built with ashlar dressings and crow-stepped gables, all topped with slate roofs. There is a detached hay barn that is deep in plan with three roof ridges, and circular gatepiers that are also ashlar-built.
Local climate
Howcleuch sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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