2 Easter Dalmeny Cottages, Main Street, Dalmeny is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 January 1981. Cottage.
2 Easter Dalmeny Cottages, Main Street, Dalmeny
- WRENN ID
- still-nave-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 144 774
- Coordinates
- 55.98246, -3.37247
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Easter Dalmeny Cottages is a pair of single-storey, asymmetrical vernacular cottages built in the earlier 19th century. They are constructed from random rubble with dressed stone details and are harled at the rear. The cottages feature chamfered arrises and painted cills on the principal elevation of 2 Easter Dalmeny Cottages.
The southern elevation of 1 Easter Dalmeny Cottages has seven bays, which include a modern timber door with a fanlight on the outer right and small windows evenly spaced across the six bays to the left. There is a later piended addition on the outer right, with its eastern elevation featuring a modern door to the right of centre and a window to the left of centre, adjacent to the churchyard wall at the northeast corner. The northern elevation has five bays with irregularly spaced windows, including a small opening between the second and third bays from the left. The western elevation is obscured by the adjoining terrace.
The southern elevation of 2 Easter Dalmeny Cottages has six bays, featuring a glazed vertically boarded timber door on the outer left, with windows in the bays to the right that hug the eaves. The northern elevation also has six bays with irregularly spaced windows. The western and eastern elevations are obscured by adjoining terraces.
Both cottages have timber sash and case windows, a graded grey slate roof, cast-iron rainwater goods, and coped, harled ridge stacks with circular cans and skews.
Local climate
2 Easter Dalmeny Cottages, Main Street, Dalmeny receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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