Thistle Cottage, Dalton is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 September 1987. Cottage.
Thistle Cottage, Dalton
- WRENN ID
- white-wattle-thrush
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NY 116 739
- Coordinates
- 55.05233, -3.38504
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Thistle Cottage is an early 19th century, single-storey, three-bay cottage. The exterior is harled, featuring contrasting painted ashlar margins. It has a central panelled door with a small-paned fanlight above it, and sash windows that have a 12-pane glazing pattern. The west gable has had the skew removed, and the chimney stack has been rebuilt in brick. The east stack is made of coped ashlar, and the roof is covered with slate.
Local climate
Thistle Cottage, Dalton sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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