Knowes Farm Shop is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. Cottage.
Knowes Farm Shop
- WRENN ID
- lunar-lime-birch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 610 777
- Coordinates
- 55.99084, -2.62594
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Knowes Farm Shop is a mid to later 18th century L-plan single storey cottage group. It features a cat-slide roof on a projecting outbuilding located in the re-entrant angle at the rear. The building is constructed from random red rubble sandstone, with ashlar dressings on the south elevation.
The south elevation originally consisted of two three-bay cottages, each with a door flanked by windows. The outer left window of the left cottage has been altered to serve as a doorway. There is a marginally late piend-roofed cartshed or store that abuts at right angles to the west of the cottages, which has a single window inserted on the south side.
On the west elevation, there are two wide doorways grouped at the centre, with a small window flanking to the outer left. The rear elevations are mostly blank, except for a small window on the east cottage group to the left.
The sash and case windows on the south elevation feature 12-pane glazing. The original cottages have gable wallhead stacks made of sandstone, which have been repaired in brick. The roofs of the cottages are pantiled and have raised skews.
Local climate
Knowes Farm Shop 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 greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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