Steading Cottage, Thurston Mains is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989.
Steading Cottage, Thurston Mains
- WRENN ID
- quartered-wattle-merlin
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1989
- OS grid reference
- NT 709 730
- Coordinates
- 55.94919, -2.46614
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Steading Cottage is a single-storey, T-plan farm cottage dating from 1857, designed by Robert Bell. It is a well-preserved example of a popular style of farm cottage, characteristic of the Dirleton area and representative of designs found in Loudon’s Cottage, Farm and Villa Architecture (1833). The cottage is constructed of squared and snecked red rubble sandstone with ashlar dressings.
The north elevation features three bays. A slightly projecting gabled doorway is centrally placed, with a small-pane fanlight above the door and a narrow slit in the finialled gable head. Windows are located in the flanking bays. All windows are sash and case style with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof has coped skews with bracketted skewputts, and gable end stacks. Grey slates cover the roof.
The cottage was built as part of a larger steading, which shares a consistent design with the steading at Thurston Home Farm. A former steam threshing mill and piggery that were once part of the complex have been demolished. The original farmhouse and walled garden, located to the northeast, are listed separately. C. McWilliam’s Lothian (1978), page 262, provides further details.
Local climate
Steading Cottage, Thurston Mains receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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