Norton Cottage, 4 Main Street, Mochrum is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 July 1972. Cottage.
Norton Cottage, 4 Main Street, Mochrum
- WRENN ID
- rooted-corner-gold
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 347 464
- Coordinates
- 54.78574, -4.57129
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Norton Cottage is an early 19th century single-storey, three-bay cottage constructed of painted rubble.
On the north elevation, there is a boarded door located at the center, flanked by windows in the outer bays. The west and east elevations are gabled and feature blank walls, with some small stones protruding from the gableheads.
The south elevation has a painted brick lean-to attached to the left side, which includes timber sash and case windows with four-pane glazing. The roof has painted coped skews and a stone ridge, along with painted rubble gablehead stacks that have thackstanes. The roof is covered with grey slates and features two small cast-iron rooflights on the north pitch.
Local climate
Norton Cottage, 4 Main Street, Mochrum sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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