Lower Braehead Cottage, The Brae, Athelstaneford is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 1991.

Lower Braehead Cottage, The Brae, Athelstaneford

WRENN ID
mired-cinder-torch
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 535 774
Coordinates
55.98748, -2.74548
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Lower Braehead Cottage is a pair of single-storey, two-bay workers' cottages dating to around 1780, situated at the top of The Brae in Athelstaneford. They were originally feu from the Gilmerton Estate, as evidenced by a 1784 plan. The cottages are constructed from random sneck harled rubble with raised margins. A central doorway is flanked by enlarged windows, with bipartite windows to the lower cottage. The windows are sash and case style, featuring two-pane upper sashes and single-pane lower sashes. The roof is covered with red pantiles, arranged in straight skews, with rendered chimney stacks.

Local climate

Lower Braehead Cottage, The Brae, 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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