Dolphinston House And Outbuildings is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1993.
Dolphinston House And Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-footing-dawn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1993
- OS grid reference
- NT 682 150
- Coordinates
- 55.42804, -2.50251
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Dolphinston House is an early 19th century farmhouse, significantly reworked and extended over time. It is a two-story, three-bay T-plan building, with harled walls contrasted by long and short ashlar dressings, and first-floor windows set beneath the eaves.
The north (front) elevation is symmetrical and three bays wide. A corniced, flat-roofed ashlar porch projects from the center, featuring a tripartite window; a flush-panelled door is situated on the return to the left. Tripartite windows are present in the flanking bays, and single windows light the first floor.
The east elevation has an advanced gabled bay with a tripartite window at ground level. The south elevation displays lower, two-story gabled additions projecting from the center, extending three bays deep. An additional outer bay is lower with irregular glazing. Lean-to additions are symmetrically placed within the angles formed by the main house and lean-to doors face East and West; a modern lean-to porch addition is located on the west side. The first floor windows are set into each outer bay of the principal block. The west elevation features an advanced gabled bay with a ground-floor window to the right.
The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case style. The roof is covered in grey slates, with ashlar coped skews and corniced, dressed ashlar apex stacks.
The interior was noted in 1992.
Outbuildings are situated to the south, comprising a single-story, four-bay gabled roughcast range with a pair of boarded doors centrally placed; a further freestanding, piend-roofed bay is set to the left. A quadrangular range of altered farm buildings also lies to the south.
A harled coped boundary wall extends to the west, punctuated by a pair of square gatepiers.
Local climate
Dolphinston House And Outbuildings receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 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 0.3°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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