Hillboro Cottage, East Port, New Galloway is a Grade B listed building in the Dumfries and Galloway local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 1971. Cottage.

Hillboro Cottage, East Port, New Galloway

WRENN ID
grey-attic-summer
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Dumfries and Galloway
Constituency
Dumfries and Galloway MP: John Cooper (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 1971
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NX 634 775
Coordinates
55.07336, -4.14042
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hillboro Cottage is an early 19th-century, two-storey, three-bay cottage located on a steeply sloping site, with a basement due to the fall of the ground. The exterior is made of painted rubble. It features a central doorway that is framed by a projecting porch constructed from monolithic granite slabs, leading to double-leaf doors. The cottage has single light sash windows that display a 12-pane glazing pattern and is topped with coped end stacks.

Local climate

Hillboro Cottage, East Port, New Galloway sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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