Birch Cottage, 13 Main Street, Elrig is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Cottage.
Birch Cottage, 13 Main Street, Elrig
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rubblework-ochre
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NX 321 477
- Coordinates
- 54.79605, -4.61199
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Birch Cottage, located at 13 Main Street in Elrig, dates from the early to earlier 19th century. This single-storey and attic cottage features three bays, with a layout of one bay on the left and two on the right. The exterior is made of painted rubble and includes narrow projecting cills.
On the west elevation facing Main Street, there is a modern door positioned at the center, flanked by small windows in the outer bays. A long box dormer window is also present. The south and north elevations are both gabled and blank.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass glazing. The roof is covered with grey slates and features red sandstone coped skews, along with painted rubble gablehead stacks and a red sandstone ridge.
Local climate
Birch Cottage, 13 Main Street, Elrig 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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