Factor's House, Dougalston, Milngavie is a Grade A listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 May 1971. House.
Factor's House, Dougalston, Milngavie
- WRENN ID
- winding-hammer-yarrow
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Constituency
- Mid Dunbartonshire MP: Susan Murray (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NS 567 738
- Coordinates
- 55.9366, -4.29481
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Factor's House in Dougalston, Milngavie, is an 18th-century building constructed from ashlar stone. It features two storeys and a raised rusticated basement. The facade has three sash windows, with the principal floor windows adorned with alternate triangular and segmental arched pediments, and a triglyph frieze above. The building has moulded stone eaves and a hipped slate roof. On either side of the roof, there are pentices that extend down, with doorways positioned symmetrically. Inside, the house includes some good plain panelling. At the rear, accessed through an outbuilding, there is a domed ice house.
Local climate
Factor's House, Dougalston, Milngavie 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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