East Cottage, Damside Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the Angus local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 June 1971. 2 related planning applications.
East Cottage, Damside Cottages
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-belfry-meadow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Angus
- Constituency
- Arbroath and Broughty Ferry MP: Lara Bird (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1971
- Address
- East Cottage, Damside Cottages, DD8 2SN
- OS grid reference
- NO 576 496
- Coordinates
- 56.63646, -2.69191
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Cottage, part of Damside Cottages, dates from 1822 and has been altered at the rear. This early, single-storey pair of cottages is prominently located on the main road from Forfar to Friockheim. They feature Gothic-arched openings and have dated skewputts on the front elevation. The building is constructed of ashlar with a deep base course and raised cills, while the sides and rear are made of squared rubble and dry dash.
The symmetrical front elevation faces south and includes a central door flanked by windows on either side of a ridge stack. The deep skewputts have relief carvings showing the date '18' on the outer left and '22' on the outer right.
The principal elevation has timber windows with decorative astragals. The windows on East Damside retain sash and case openings, while those on West Damside have pivot openings. The roofing is non-traditional, featuring brick stacks with thackstanes and broad skews with deep block skewputts.
Local climate
East Cottage, Damside Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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