1 Mainshill Cottages, Mainshill is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. 1 related planning application.
1 Mainshill Cottages, Mainshill
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-ember-plover
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1991
- Address
- 1 Mainshill Cottages, Mainshill, EH41 4LG
- OS grid reference
- NT 561 722
- Coordinates
- 55.94095, -2.70368
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Mainshill Cottages, built in 1872, is a single-storey, symmetrical group of three terraced farm cottages, each with three bays. The cottages are constructed from warm red sandstone that is stugged, squared, and snecked, featuring ashlar dressings, a cill course, stone mullions, and hoodmoulds on the east elevation.
The east elevation has nine bays and includes a timber-bracketed, piended canopy over the central doorway, which is flanked by tripartite windows. The outer bays are gabled and advanced, each with four-light windows and panels at the apex, with the right panel dated 1872. There are additional doorways in the penultimate bays without canopies, and bipartite windows in the outer bays.
Both the north and south elevations feature low gabled coal-sheds projecting at the center. The east elevation has catslide projections for each cottage, which were later extended with harled porch additions.
The cottages have large square-pane glazing patterns in their sash and case windows, and strip fanlights above the doorways. There are end and mutual gable stacks with moulded caps, and the roofs are covered with purple slates and timber bargeboards. However, numbers 3 and 4 have regrettably been altered with double glazed double swing windows, a modern dormer, and Velux windows added in 1990.
Local climate
1 Mainshill Cottages, Mainshill 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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