Hawthorn Cottage, 81 Main Street, Ratho is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 March 1994. House.
Hawthorn Cottage, 81 Main Street, Ratho
- WRENN ID
- sunken-corridor-peregrine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1994
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 137 706
- Coordinates
- 55.92136, -3.3811
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Hawthorn Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built around 1840, featuring a half-pitched addition to the east. The main structure is made of squared whinstone with sandstone margins and quoins, while the eastern addition is rendered.
On the main elevation, there is a boarded door at the center, with a narrow fanlight above that has been blinded and now displays "Hawthorn Cottage No 81." Flanking the door are windows. To the left, there is a lower lean-to addition made of ashlar sandstone, which includes a window. The cottage has 12-pane sash and case windows, a grey slate roof, and ashlar coping at the skews, with coped apex stacks.
The boundary wall surrounding the property is a low rubble and mortar wall topped with semi-circular coping, which sweeps upwards on the west side.
Local climate
Hawthorn Cottage, 81 Main Street, Ratho sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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