21 Main Street, Temple is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. House.

21 Main Street, Temple

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
NT 316 585
Coordinates
55.81568, -3.0915
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

21 Main Street in Temple is a house dating from 1760. It is a two-storey, three-bay building with a traditional rectangular plan and a later addition at the rear. The exterior is constructed from tooled sandstone rubble with broached dressings, featuring long and short dressings and quoins.

The west elevation is symmetrical, with a central doorway that has a relieving arch. Above the door is a tooled lintel inscribed with "TB 1760," along with a carved setsquare and pair of compasses, symbols of a mason. The door has been replaced with a timber version that includes a glazed panel, and there are windows in the flanking bays. The first floor has regular fenestration.

The south elevation is obscured by an adjoining cottage. The east elevation was not visible in 1998. The north elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a single window off-centre to the left on the first floor. There is a 19th-century tooled addition on the outer left, which has a single window off-centre to the right on the ground floor.

The ground floor windows are 12-pane timber sash and case, while the first floor windows are 4-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge, stone skews, and coped tooled gablehead stacks with circular cans. The building also features cast iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

21 Main Street, Temple 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 78% 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 55 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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