Glede Knowe Sheephouse, Huntly Cot is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 1998. Sheep house.

Glede Knowe Sheephouse, Huntly Cot

WRENN ID
cold-ashlar-heath
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 November 1998
Type
Sheep house
OS grid reference
NT 302 517
Coordinates
55.75429, -3.11289
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Glede Knowe Sheephouse, located at Huntly Cot, is an earlier 19th century single-storey sheep house with a rectangular plan. The building was rebuilt by the current owner in the late 20th century using predominantly original materials. It features flat coped, random rubble walls that rise to a central gateway on the southeast side, creating gables at the roof ends. The structure has long and short quoins, and the exterior wall to the left of the gateway is supported by a battered buttress.

Inside, the sheephouse has square plan columns made of tooled, squared, and snecked sandstone, with occasional brick snecks. There are timber lintels and a pantiled roof with a terracotta ridge. The interior walls have hecks, and there is an opening in the center of the southwest wall, with boarded timber gables on the flanking blocks.

Local climate

Glede Knowe Sheephouse, Huntly Cot 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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