October Cottage, Oldhamstocks is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
October Cottage, Oldhamstocks
- WRENN ID
- watchful-latch-thyme
- 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
- Address
- October Cottage, Oldhamstocks, TD13 5XN
- OS grid reference
- NT 742 705
- Coordinates
- 55.92748, -2.41388
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
October Cottage is an earlier 19th century single-storey L-plan cottage, formed from two adjoined three-bay cottages. The structure is built of rubble with ashlar dressings and has a harled east gable.
The southwest wing features three irregularly grouped bays, with a central doorway that has a simple timber gabled porch, flanked by windows in the adjacent bays. The east wing is slightly recessed, with bays arranged similarly; it includes a boarded door and a small window to the left of the door that was inserted later. There is a harled flat-roofed addition at the northern end.
The cottage has sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roofs are pantiled, with ashlar skews and gable end stacks that have been repaired in brick.
A rubble coped retaining wall curves to the south, shielding the cottage from the road at the junction to the east.
Local climate
October Cottage, Oldhamstocks receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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