Cottage, Waterbeck is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 October 1988.
Cottage, Waterbeck
- WRENN ID
- deep-copper-mint
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1988
- OS grid reference
- NY 246 775
- Coordinates
- 55.08657, -3.18206
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The New Cottage in Waterbeck is likely from the late 18th century. It consists of a row of single-storey cottages located on the south side of the road, arranged in four separate blocks that step down the slope. The cottages are built from rubble with ashlar margins and are all painted. The western block, which includes Miss Byers and Mrs Gordon, features a pair of three-bay cottages with central doors, while the other blocks have asymmetrical designs. There have been some alterations; for instance, the Old Grocery has an enlarged window, and the smithy to the east has been fitted with sliding doors. The cottages have boarded doors with rectangular fanlights and mostly small-paned sash windows. They feature end and axial stacks and are all roofed with graded slates.
Local climate
Cottage, Waterbeck sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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