Barns House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Mansion.
Barns House
- WRENN ID
- mired-keystone-poplar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- Type
- Mansion
- OS grid reference
- NT 216 392
- Coordinates
- 55.64042, -3.24663
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Barns House is a small Georgian mansion located on the south bank of the Tweed River. It was built by James Burnet of Barns between 1773 and 1780, replacing an earlier house. The exterior features harled walls with quoins, and the building stands two stories tall on a sunk basement that includes a railed area. The central pediment is adorned with three ornamental urn finials, and the roof is piended. The porch is supported by four Ionic columns. At the rear, there is a central bowed projection that extends to full height, while the basement is exposed as a ground floor. Additionally, a lower wing has been added to one side of the house.
Local climate
Barns House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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