Skirling House, Skirling is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
Skirling House, Skirling
- WRENN ID
- tall-gateway-fog
- 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
- House
- Address
- Skirling House, Skirling, ML12 6HD
- OS grid reference
- NT 076 389
- Coordinates
- 55.63533, -3.46889
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Skirling House, designed by architect Ramsay Traquair, was built in 1905 for Lord Carmichael. The house was constructed around an existing farmhouse and features a part weatherboarded upper floor, which reflects influences from the southern coast of England. It includes some interesting wrought-iron work by Thomas Hadden of Edinburgh and has small pane glazing along with a slate roof.
Inside, one room boasts an Italian ceiling that originally hung in the small drawing-room of Castlecraig.
The Gardener's House is an 18th-century single-storey rubble cottage that underwent alterations in 1821, which are dated, and had a porch and rear elevation added around 1907. It was converted into a woodstore around 1970 and is located to the rear of the main house, facing the road. The cottage has a slate roof and a variety of timber windows.
The Summer House is a timber single-storey pavilion built in 1907 with a rectangular plan. It is situated to the southeast of the main house and was originally open-fronted but was altered shortly after its construction. The floor features a 'spider and fly' cobble mosaic, and it has a slate roof.
There is also a stone barn, possibly from the 18th century, which has a lean-to addition and slate roofs.
The boundary walls consist of a rubble dwarf wall along the road, complemented by a fine timber fence and gates.
Local climate
Skirling House, Skirling sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% 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 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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