Longwood Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 July 1988. 1 related planning application.
Longwood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-plinth-vetch
- 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
- Address
- Longwood Cottage, DG13 0LH
- OS grid reference
- NY 371 830
- Coordinates
- 55.13751, -2.98721
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Longwood Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century cottage, likely built within the first half of the 19th century, with a later rear wing and a detached tall block to the southeast that includes a glass house. The ranges are not contemporary but are all probably from the first half of the 19th century.
The cottage is single-storey and three bays, with a gable attic light centrally positioned below an end stack. It is built of rubble stone, with squared rubble to the west front, and has ashlar dressings. A distinctive eaves/lintel band runs along the front elevation. The west-facing front door is panelled and features a fanlight above. The windows are small-paned sashes.
The tall block, likely dating from around 1840, is two storeys high and gabled. It is built of snecked and squared rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered reveals. A cantilevered stone forestair with an iron handrail runs along the long north wall. The block also has small-paned sash windows, wall-head and axial stacks, and a broad-eaved roof. A full-length glass house is situated along the south wall, its roof abutting the tall block below the main eaves level. A detached glass house is located to the east.
Local climate
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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