Mill Cottage, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 1993. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Mill Cottage, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff
- WRENN ID
- solemn-keep-poplar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mill Cottage, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff, DG8 6PJ
- OS grid reference
- NX 411 660
- Coordinates
- 54.96381, -4.48343
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mill Cottage is an early 19th century single-storey, three-bay cottage located on Millcroft Road in Minnigaff. The east elevation is rendered, while the other elevations are made of painted rubble, featuring raised margins and angle margins on the east side.
On the east elevation, there is a modern door with a fanlight at the center, flanked by windows in the outer bays. The northeast elevation has a window at the center, while the southeast elevation features a window to the left of center. The west elevation includes a window to the left and a smaller window at the center. There is also a rubble and brick lean-to on the right side of the west elevation, which has a door on the left return.
The cottage has 12-pane glazing in its sash and case windows, along with two modern flat-roofed dormers on the east pitch and a modern dormer on the left side of the west pitch. The roof features red sandstone coped skews, painted rubble gablehead stacks, graded grey slates, and octagonal cans.
Local climate
Mill Cottage, Millcroft Road, Minnigaff sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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