1-4 Old School Cottages, Holywood is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. School.
1-4 Old School Cottages, Holywood
- WRENN ID
- brooding-hearth-reed
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NX 951 800
- Coordinates
- 55.10347, -3.64458
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1-4 Old School Cottages in Holywood were built in 1823 and originally served as a single-storey school, which has since been converted into four cottages, with an additional structure at the north gable. The building features stugged and squared rubble that is whitewashed, complemented by contrasting black-painted ashlar margins, while the addition is rendered.
The long east elevation showcases central and outer bays that are gabled, with the latter being advanced. Each gable head has a blind cusped opening. There are three boarded and glazed doors, each topped with a triple-arched fanlight, and a fourth door located in the addition. The cottages have small-paned sash windows throughout. The roof features straight skews, with corniced end and axial stacks, as well as axial ventilators. The main roof is covered with graded slates.
Local climate
1-4 Old School Cottages, Holywood sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,230 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% 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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