Castleton Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1998. Farmhouse.
Castleton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- former-flue-rye
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 331 583
- Coordinates
- 55.81412, -3.06846
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castleton Farmhouse is an earlier 19th century, two-storey, three-bay rectangular farmhouse with a later addition to the east. It is constructed from tooled, snecked rubble with tooled dressings, featuring droved margins, long and short quoins, and narrow bargeboards.
The south elevation is symmetrical, with an advanced gabled porch at the center of the ground floor, which has a replacement grained panelled timber door. To the right of the door is a two-pane glazed panel with a letterbox fanlight above, and a window is located to the left return. There are single windows in the flanking bays and regular fenestration on the first floor. The single-storey, two-bay addition to the outer right has a slate piended roof, a timber door at the center, a window to the left, and irregular fenestration on the right return, with a single window and a wallhead stack at the rear.
The east elevation is obscured by the addition. The north elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a window at the center of the ground floor, a window to the left, and a window at the center of the first floor, with the right bay being blank. The addition is located to the outer left. The west elevation is also asymmetrical, with a single window off-center to the left of the ground floor.
The farmhouse predominantly has two-pane timber sash and case windows and a graded grey slate roof with a lead ridge. The west elevation features a rubble tooled coped gablehead stack with octagonal and circular cans, while the east elevation has a cement coped gablehead stack with circular cans.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
The property includes polished ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps, timber gates, and tooled boundary walls with rubble coping on all sides.
Local climate
Castleton Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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