West Central Cottage, Pitcox Cottages, Pitcox is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1990.
West Central Cottage, Pitcox Cottages, Pitcox
- WRENN ID
- lost-newel-owl
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1990
- OS grid reference
- NT 643 752
- Coordinates
- 55.96876, -2.57329
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
East Central Cottage, located at Pitcox Cottages in Pitcox, was built in 1836 and consists of a single-storey row of four, three-bay cottar houses from the Improvement period. The cottages feature sympathetic piend-roofed rear additions that were made around 1890. They are constructed from red sandstone rubble, accented with stugged and droved ashlar dressings.
On the south elevation, each cottage is symmetrical, with a doorway flanked by almost square windows. The rubble below the cills is made from larger blocks. The roofs are covered with pantiles, and there is a grey slate easing course.
The north elevation includes piend-roofed extensions for each cottage, each with two windows, with the right window being narrower. This elevation also features pantiles and a red tile easing course.
The east and west elevations are mostly blank, with small four-pane windows located at the re-entrant angles on the rear. The sash and case windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern. The cottages have mutual gable and end stacks made of ashlar.
Local climate
West Central Cottage, Pitcox Cottages, Pitcox receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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