Cottage And Dovecot, Hillside is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1988. Cottage, dovecot.
Cottage And Dovecot, Hillside
- WRENN ID
- tattered-floor-sage
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1988
- Type
- Cottage, dovecot
- OS grid reference
- NY 138 854
- Coordinates
- 55.1562, -3.35354
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The cottage and dovecot at Hillside date from around 1840. The single-storey cottage is connected to a square-plan dovecot with a pyramidal roof. Both structures are built from rubble with red ashlar dressings and have slate roofs.
The cottage features a west elevation with three wide bays. It has a panelled door with a fanlight, located behind a columned semi-circular central porch that is flanked by narrow windows. There are single windows in the outer bays, each with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof has two symmetrically placed stacks with cavetto cornices and is covered with graded slates.
The dovecot, located within the courtyard to the east of the cottage, is partly harled and has a row of flight-holes at the upper level of its elevations. It features projecting eaves and a weathervane finial, and it may have been re-roofed in the second half of the 19th century. The dovecot is set behind an ashlar-built boundary wall.
Local climate
Cottage And Dovecot, Hillside sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% 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 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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