Brewer's Bush is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 May 1999. Cottage.
Brewer's Bush
- WRENN ID
- silent-timber-hawthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 May 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 330 632
- Coordinates
- 55.85818, -3.07068
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Brewer's Bush is a cottage likely designed by Robert Smith and dated 1873. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a rectangular plan and three bays. The exterior is made of tooled, coursed sandstone rubble with stugged dressings that are droved to the margins. Architectural details include stop-chamfered reveals, overhanging eaves, gabled dormers, and timber bargeboards.
The north elevation, which serves as the entrance, is near-symmetrical. It has a replacement panelled timber door at the center of the ground floor, framed by a gabled timber porch with kingpost detail. To the left is a projecting bipartite window, and to the right is another bipartite window. A modern rooflight is located in the center of the roof. The attic features a dormer window on the left bay with a tooled panel in the gablehead that reads "RD" (Robert Dundas), and another dormer window on the right bay with a tooled panel that reads "1873."
The west elevation is asymmetrical, with a single window positioned off-centre to the left of the gablehead. The south elevation was not seen in 1998. The east elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring a single window off-centre to the right of the gablehead.
The cottage has 2-pane timber sash and case windows on the ground floor and 4-pane timber sash and case windows in the attic. The roof is covered with grey slate and has a lead ridge. Stugged, corniced gablehead stacks with octagonal cans are present, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not seen in 1998.
Local climate
Brewer's Bush 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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