2 Paradise Cottages, Grange Road, Monifieth is a Grade B listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1989. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
2 Paradise Cottages, Grange Road, Monifieth
- WRENN ID
- leaning-mantel-primrose
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 2 Paradise Cottages, Grange Road, Monifieth, DD5 4LT
- OS grid reference
- NO 487 324
- Coordinates
- 56.48177, -2.83357
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Paradise Cottages, located on Grange Road in Monifieth, were built in 1853 as single-storey, semi-detached cottages for estate workers. The cottages feature a rectangular plan and are constructed from pink and yellow rubble with polished dressings. No 2 cottage has sash and case windows, while No 1 cottage has hoppers. Both cottages have skew gables with large apex stones and three chimney stacks, two of which are rendered and lined, and one is a corniced stone. The slate roof is finished with stone ridge copes.
On the south elevation, there is a central door with a single window on either side for each cottage, with blank bays at the east and west ends and two rooflights. The east elevation has twin doors that have been blocked to create windows, which formerly led to livestock or storage sheds. The west elevation is similar to the east but features a gable apex with the digits "18" and "TK," although the "53" from 1853 has been obscured by former electricity supply fixtures.
Inside, each cottage consists of a small lobby, two principal rooms, and converted livestock or storage sheds from 1939. There are some later 19th-century chimneypieces, and No 2 cottage has notable graining on the doors and chimneypiece. To the north, there is a rubble wall, along with a former privy and a ruined pigsty located to the northwest.
Local climate
2 Paradise Cottages, Grange Road, Monifieth receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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