Whitehill Mains Farmhouse is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. Farmhouse.

Whitehill Mains Farmhouse

WRENN ID
weathered-pillar-frost
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 November 1990
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NT 319 711
Coordinates
55.92892, -3.0902
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Whitehill Mains Farmhouse is a two-storey, three-bay farmhouse dating from the earlier to mid 19th century. It features a piend roof and is constructed of red sandstone, with rubble on the sides and rear. The front is squared and coursed with heavy pointing, and includes an ashlar base, cill course, and dressings.

The south elevation has a centrally located corniced door with an architraved surround, flanked by windows in each bay at the first floor. The door is deep-set, flush-panelled, and has a geometrically paned fanlight above it.

On the rear elevation, there is a stair window at the center, with windows in the outer bays on each floor, and a small later door inserted to the left of center. The east elevation has two ground floor windows and one first floor window, while the west elevation is blank and abutted by a garden wall.

The sash and case windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern, and the roof is covered with grey slates. Tall sandstone stacks rise from the ends of the building.

Local climate

Whitehill Mains Farmhouse receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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