Hawthornden Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1997. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Hawthornden Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1997
Type
Cottage
Address
Hawthornden Cottage, EH18 1EE
OS grid reference
NT 290 636
Coordinates
55.86056, -3.13558
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hawthornden Cottage is a later 19th century, single-storey cottage with an attic, designed in a three-bay, gabled L-plan. It is constructed from cream and pink squared and snecked sandstone rubble, featuring polished ashlar dressings. The building includes a base course, raised margins around the windows, and a stepped hoodmould over the door. The gables are adorned with decorative bargeboarding, which is likely a replacement, and the corners are finished with long and short quoins.

On the west elevation, there is an advanced, gabled porch at the re-entrant angle in the center. The porch features an architraved doorway with a square panel and a stepped hoodmould above, along with a bossed boarded door that has decorative wrought-iron hinges. A spike finial is located at the gablehead above the porch. To the right of the porch, there is a window on the return, and a window set back in the right bay at ground level, with a gabled dormer window above it. A gablehead stack is positioned at the southern end. The left advanced bay contains a three-light canted window with a flat ogee roof, and there is a window in the gablehead above it.

The cottage features zinc, diamond-pane timber sash and case windows, and is topped with a grey slate roof. Ashlar coped gablehead stacks are present at both the northern and southern ends, along with cast-iron rainwater goods. A modern brick garage is located to the south of the cottage.

Local climate

Hawthornden Cottage 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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