Shawfoot Cottage, Caulkerbush is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 April 1990. Cottage.
Shawfoot Cottage, Caulkerbush
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gateway-thunder
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 925 572
- Coordinates
- 54.89807, -3.67634
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Shawfoot Cottage, located in Caulkerbush, is a picturesque T-plan cottage built in the mid to late 19th century. It is a single-storey structure with an attic and features a symmetrical gabled three-bay front. The cottage is constructed from rubble with contrasting granite margins and quoins.
At the center, there is an advanced gabled bay that includes a bipartite attic light. The original timber mullioned casement windows add to its charm. The cottage has deeply overhanging eaves and is topped with good slate roofs. Flanking the central gablet are a pair of tall diamond stacks.
Local climate
Shawfoot Cottage, Caulkerbush sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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