Greenfoot Cottage, The Square, Gifford is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. House.
Greenfoot Cottage, The Square, Gifford
- WRENN ID
- rough-latch-bracken
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 533 680
- Coordinates
- 55.90314, -2.74775
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Greenfoot Cottage, located in The Square, Gifford, is an earlier 18th century, two-storey, three-bay house that is adjoined to the Town Hall.
The south elevation of the cottage is positioned to the west of the Town Hall and features white painted harling with painted ashlar dressings. The façade has three widely spaced bays, with a central door that includes a small-paned horizontal fanlight above a panelled door. There are windows in the flanking bays and one in each bay on the first floor, situated under the eaves. Additionally, there are two windows on the left side of the west gable wall. The windows are designed with a 12-pane sash and case glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there is an ashlar end stack with coping at the skews.
Local climate
Greenfoot Cottage, The Square, Gifford 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 lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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