Glen Cottage, Main Street, Garvald is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1990. 2 related planning applications.

Glen Cottage, Main Street, Garvald

WRENN ID
little-grate-quill
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 May 1990
Address
Glen Cottage, Main Street, Garvald, EH41 4LN
OS grid reference
NT 587 707
Coordinates
55.9284, -2.66202
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Early 19th century cottages. This is a pair of single-story cottages, each with three bays, alongside an earlier three-bay cottage attached to Mulberry Cottage to the east. The cottages are built of red rubble with ashlar dressings; Glen Cottage and the rear elevations are harled.

The north (street) elevation shows each cottage with a doorway in the centre, flanked by windows. The earlier bays attached to Mulberry Cottage have lower eaves, with a former central doorway now blocked as a window. A flat-roofed addition projects from the west gable of Glen Cottage. Alterations have been made to the rear.

The windows have a variety of glazing patterns, mostly modern. The steeply pitched gables have ashlar coped skews, and there are gable end and mutual gable stacks, topped with pantiles.

Despite the harling applied to Glen Cottage, the original character of the pair is largely retained. Mulberry Cottage was formerly known as 'Orcadia'.

Local climate

Glen Cottage, Main Street, Garvald 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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