Thornylee Cottage, Main Street, West Saltoun is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Terrace house.

Thornylee Cottage, Main Street, West Saltoun

WRENN ID
little-floor-stoat
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 May 1991
Type
Terrace house
OS grid reference
NT 460 673
Coordinates
55.89616, -2.86387
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Thornylee Cottage is a late 18th century, two-storey, two-bay terrace house located on Main Street in West Saltoun. The building is constructed from rubble with heavy pointing. The doorway is situated to the right of the west elevation, with a narrow window on either side and one window in each bay on the first floor. At the rear, there is a piend-roofed projection with lower eaves. The cottage features modern windows and is topped with red pantiles. The original stacks have been removed.

Local climate

Thornylee Cottage, Main Street, West Saltoun receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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