Rivel Cottage, Ruthwell is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 January 1979. Cottage.
Rivel Cottage, Ruthwell
- WRENN ID
- buried-bonework-heron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NY 100 674
- Coordinates
- 54.99335, -3.4082
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Rivel Cottage is a late 18th century single-storey, three-bay cottage located in Ruthwell. It features outbuildings that extend to the rear in an L-plan along Kirklands Loaning. The cottage is constructed of whitewashed rubble with contrasting painted margins. It has an inner door, four-pane sash windows, a small window, and a post box on the west gable. The outbuildings include a west-facing door at the north end. The cottage has brick end stacks and is roofed with graded slates.
Local climate
Rivel Cottage, Ruthwell sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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