Rowan Cottage, Main Street, Athelstaneford is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 1991.

Rowan Cottage, Main Street, Athelstaneford

WRENN ID
long-cloister-solstice
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 June 1991
OS grid reference
NT 535 773
Coordinates
55.9867, -2.7459
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rowan Cottage is a house dating from around 1800, with alterations made at a later date. It is a two-storey, three-bay building, with a harled exterior and painted margins around the windows. A modern, gabled porch has been added to the centre of the front, providing access, and it features a window on each return side. Windows are positioned on either side of the porch at ground level, with three windows at the first floor, set close under the eaves; a smaller window is located at the centre of the first floor. A rear entrance is situated to the left of the centre, flanked by windows, with further windows in the outer bays at the first floor. The windows are sash and case style, with a 12-pane glazing pattern.

The roof is covered in red pantiles, with harled chimney stacks and coped skewes featuring raised skewputts. To the east, the cottage adjoins 'Hilltop' (which is listed separately), and to the west is a row of single-storey cottages.

Local climate

Rowan Cottage, Main Street, Athelstaneford receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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