Howes Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 September 1987. Cottage.
Howes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- haunted-vestry-elder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NY 187 669
- Coordinates
- 54.99026, -3.27213
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Howes Cottage is an earlier to mid-19th century single-storey building designed in an L-plan. It features a south-facing cottage with a gabled central porch and outbuildings located to the rear, which include a smithy or workshop that faces west. The structure is built from stugged and squared red rubble, accented with ashlar dressings. It has a piended slate roof and three prominent axial stacks, each with a pair of diamond flues. The cottage is fitted with sash windows that have a 12-pane glazing pattern, and there is a door situated in the re-entrant angle.
Local climate
Howes Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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