Heather Cottage, 298 Colinton Road, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage.

Heather Cottage, 298 Colinton Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
late-doorway-jay
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 217 690
Coordinates
55.90815, -3.25353
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Heather Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built around 1810, located on Colinton Road in Edinburgh. The cottage features a gabled roof, with the central bay slightly projecting and adorned with a pediment that has a blocked oculus in the tympanum. The exterior is finished with modern painted harl and has bracketed eaves.

The south-facing façade includes timber sash and case windows with 12-pane glazing across the three bays, with the central window replacing what was originally a door. The stone skews and corniced gable-head stacks are topped with thake-stones. The roof is covered with later graded grey slate, which is set at a different pitch compared to the gables. The cottage also has modern extensions to the west and north.

Local climate

Heather Cottage, 298 Colinton Road, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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