Otter Inn, 18 Main Street, Elrig is a Grade C listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 December 1979. Cottage.

Otter Inn, 18 Main Street, Elrig

WRENN ID
bitter-cloister-moth
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 December 1979
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NX 321 477
Coordinates
54.79662, -4.61241
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Otter Inn, located at 18 Main Street in Elrig, is an early to early 19th-century single-storey, three-bay cottage that is part of a terraced row. The building is constructed from rubble and features narrow projecting cills.

On the east elevation facing Main Street, there is a modern door with a letterbox fanlight at the center, flanked by windows in the outer bays. The south elevation is attached to No 16 Main Street, while the north elevation is adjoined to No 20 Main Street.

The cottage has plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows. It features a red sandstone coped mutual skew that is shared with the south side. The chimney stacks are painted and partly rendered rubble, and the roof is covered with purple slates. There are two modern rooflights on the east pitch, and cobblestones are laid in front of the cottage.

Local climate

Otter Inn, 18 Main Street, Elrig sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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