Violetbank Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1971. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Violetbank Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-chapel-onyx
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NY 188 672
- Coordinates
- 54.99312, -3.26972
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Violetbank Cottage, dated 1766, is a single-storey, three-bay cottage featuring a central door and a discreet modern addition at the rear (east). The cottage is built from rubble and is whitewashed, with contrasting painted chamfered ashlar margins. It has sash windows that now contain four-pane glazing. The eaves are moulded, and the straight skews and corniced end stacks are likely from the 19th century. The roof is covered with graded slates.
Local climate
Violetbank 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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