Outbuilding With Glass House, Longwood Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1988.
Outbuilding With Glass House, Longwood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-keep-ivy
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 July 1988
- OS grid reference
- NY 371 829
- Coordinates
- 55.13733, -2.98712
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The outbuilding with glass house at Longwood Cottage comprises a range of structures likely built during the first half of the 19th century. The main building is a single-story, three-bay cottage with an attic space accessed by a central dormer light below the end stack. It has a projecting L-shaped rear wing and a detached, taller block to the southeast with a full-length glass house attached. All buildings are roofed with slate.
The cottage itself is probably from the early 19th century. It’s constructed of rubble stone, with squared rubble on the western front elevation, and has ashlar dressings. The plan is deep, with a panelled front door facing west, featuring a fanlight above, and a continuous band marking the eaves and lintel. Small-paned sash windows are present throughout.
The taller block, likely dating to around 1840, is built of snecked and squared rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered reveals. It is two stories high with gabled ends and a cantilevered stone forestair on the long north wall, featuring an iron handrail. It has small-paned sash windows, wall-head stacks, and axial stacks, along with a broadly eaved roof.
The glass house runs the full length of the south wall of the taller block and its roof aligns with the block below the main eaves level. A separate, detached glass house is located to the east.
Local climate
Outbuilding With Glass House, Longwood Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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