23 Main Street, Temple is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Cottage.
23 Main Street, Temple
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gravel-crag
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 317 585
- Coordinates
- 55.81556, -3.09145
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a later 19th-century single-storey and attic cottage located at 23 Main Street in Temple. It features three bays and is constructed from coursed yellow sandstone, with droved long and short dressings and quoins. The cottage has projecting cills and piended slated dormer windows in the attic storey.
The west elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical with a central doorway on the ground floor. This doorway has a boarded timber door topped with a letterbox fanlight, and there is a window in each of the flanking bays. The attic storey contains a dormer window in each bay.
The south elevation is harled, while the east elevation was not visible in 1998. The north elevation is obscured by the adjoining house at 21 Main Street.
The cottage has modern timber windows throughout and a grey slate roof with a lead ridge. The stone skews and cement-faced coped gablehead stacks are topped with circular cans, and it features cast iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
23 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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