Westwood Cottage, Hardgate is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. House.

Westwood Cottage, Hardgate

WRENN ID
first-gutter-dale
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NX 814 669
Coordinates
54.98326, -3.85391
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Westwood Cottage is a 19th-century single-storey and attic cottage featuring a four-bay frontage. The exterior is constructed of painted rubble with polished margins and quoins. All openings are framed with polished ashlar architraves, consoled cornices, and a blocking course. The entrance door includes a fanlight and a sculpted panel above it. The cottage has sash windows with small-pane glazing.

On either side of the 19th-century gabled dormer above the door, there are 20th-century bipartite brick box dormers. The roofs are slate, with flat skews and corniced wallhead stacks. To the right of the main structure, there is a single-storey two-bay wing that shares similar detailing. The garden is enclosed by a coped painted rubble wall, which features a pair of granite gatepiers.

Local climate

Westwood Cottage, Hardgate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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