Castlecraig is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Mansion. 2 related planning applications.
Castlecraig
- WRENN ID
- young-cornice-primrose
- 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
- Address
- Castlecraig, EH46 7DH
- OS grid reference
- NT 136 442
- Coordinates
- 55.68421, -3.37462
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Castlecraig is a classical mansion built in 1798 by Sir John Gibson-Carmichael. It features a central three-storey block with a pedimented slight projection, flanked by one-storey wings that end in pedimented pavilions. In 1905, James Mann purchased Castlecraig and remodeled the house according to designs by Sir John James Burnet. The building is currently used as a residential school.
Local climate
Castlecraig 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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