Torcraik is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 March 1998. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Torcraik
- WRENN ID
- rusted-entrance-swift
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1998
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Torcraik, EH23 4QX
- OS grid reference
- NT 362 592
- Coordinates
- 55.82256, -3.01939
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Torcraik is an early 19th century, two-storey farmhouse with a rectangular plan and later additions to the rear. The principal elevation features tooled coursed sandstone, while the rest of the building is harled, with droved dressings and long and short quoins. There is a base course and slightly projecting window sills.
The southeast elevation is symmetrical, with a central doorway that has a 20th century flat-roofed open timber porch on a bullfaced stone wall. The entrance includes a glazed timber door with a letterbox fanlight, flanked by windows in the adjacent bays, and regular fenestration on the first floor.
The northeast elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a centrally located window on the ground floor and another window off-center to the right on the first floor.
The northwest elevation is also asymmetrical with irregular fenestration, including an L-shaped plan addition. This elevation has a glazed timber door leading to the southeast and a piended roof with a ridge stack.
The southwest elevation is blank.
The windows are 12-pane timber sash and case. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge, with ashlar skews. The building features cast iron rainwater goods and coped ashlar gablehead stacks.
Local climate
Torcraik receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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