Drochil Castle Farm is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1978. House. 1 related planning application.

Drochil Castle Farm

WRENN ID
silent-gargoyle-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1978
Type
House
Address
Drochil Castle Farm, EH46 7DD
OS grid reference
NT 163 434
Coordinates
55.67741, -3.33249
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Drochil Castle Farm is a building from around 1824 featuring a simple limewashed facade with black painted quoins and window dressings. It has two storeys above a basement and includes a central doorway, topped by a piended roof.

Local climate

Drochil Castle Farm sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 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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