Wells O' Wearie Cottage, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 October 2003. Cottage.
Wells O' Wearie Cottage, Holyrood Park, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- plain-lead-storm
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 October 2003
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 273 723
- Coordinates
- 55.93879, -3.16414
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Wells O' Wearie Cottage is a single storey L-plan former shepherd's cottage built around 1857, located in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. The building is constructed from squared and snecked rubble. The entrance is on the west side, featuring a slightly advanced pedimented porch in the re-entrant angle, which includes a 4-panel timber entrance door with a fanlight above. There is an advanced gable to the right and a later lean-to addition to the south.
The cottage primarily has 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is roofed with graded grey slates. It features a coped wallhead and gable stacks, along with raised skews and skewputts.
Inside, the cottage has been comprehensively modernised, but some original features remain, including a few 4-panel timber doors and working timber shutters, as observed in 2007.
Local climate
Wells O' Wearie Cottage, Holyrood Park, 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 76% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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