West Cottage, Windsover Cottages is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 June 1986.
West Cottage, Windsover Cottages
- WRENN ID
- narrow-portal-khaki
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- OS grid reference
- NX 904 859
- Coordinates
- 55.15599, -3.72081
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Cottage is an earlier 19th century cottage, one of two adjoining single-story, three-bay cottages. The cottages share a central doorway with a hood-moulded archway above. The walls are constructed of rubble stone, primarily whinstone, with dressed details in stugged red ashlar, including painted margins and gables. The doors are partly-glazed and boarded, and the windows are casement style with wooden mullions. The westernmost cottage retains latticed glazing in its windows. The roof is slate-covered, with straight skews and end chimneys.
Local climate
West Cottage, Windsover Cottages sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 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 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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