Boiler by James Watt's Cottage, Bo'ness is a Grade A listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 2017.
Boiler by James Watt's Cottage, Bo'ness
- WRENN ID
- carved-banister-gorse
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 2017
- OS grid reference
- NS 982 805
- Coordinates
- 56.00674, -3.63414
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
James Watt's Cottage in Bo'ness is a single-storey, three-bay symmetrical cottage built in 1768. It features a large iron cylinder from a Newcomen engine located to the southwest. The cottage and the cylinder are situated southwest of Kinneil House, next to the Gil Burn. The cottage is constructed from rubble and is currently roofless, with no windows or doors as of 2017.
Local climate
Boiler by James Watt's Cottage, Bo'ness sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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