Southern Cottage, Temple Farm is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 1998. Cottages.
Southern Cottage, Temple Farm
- WRENN ID
- small-bastion-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1998
- Type
- Cottages
- OS grid reference
- NT 321 580
- Coordinates
- 55.81052, -3.08419
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Southern Cottage at Temple Farm is a single-storey terrace of three rectangular plan cottages built in the later 19th century. The structure is made of tooled sandstone rubble with stugged dressings that are droved to the margins.
The southeast elevation, which serves as the entrance, is asymmetrical. It features a glazed panelled timber door near the centre, with panelled timber doors in the penultimate bays to the left and right. The remaining bays have irregular fenestration.
The northeast elevation is blank and has a harled lean-to addition on the outer right side. The northwest elevation was not visible during the 1998 inspection. The southwest elevation has a window that is off-centre to the left and also includes a harled lean-to addition on the outer left.
The cottages have earlier 20th-century timber sash and case windows, with 12-pane and 6-pane configurations. The roof is covered with purple grey slate and features regularly placed ventilators and a lead ridge. The gable heads and ridge stacks are coped and polished, with circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods are also present.
The interior was not seen during the 1998 inspection.
Local climate
Southern Cottage, Temple Farm 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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