High Grove Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
High Grove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-obsidian-curlew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 913 783
- Coordinates
- 55.08725, -3.70358
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
High Grove Cottage is an earlier or mid 19th century single-story, three-bay cottage. It has a steep piended roof and a rectangular, almost square, plan. The cottage is rubble-built, with red ashlar margins and hood-moulds. The south elevation features a central doorway with a glazed modern door, and flanking tripartite windows with painted mullions and casements. It has overhanging, bracketed eaves, a cut-down apex stack, and a slate roof. A modern porch is located on the west flank.
Local climate
High Grove Cottage sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,240 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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