Garden Cottages, Melville Castle is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1991. Cottage.
Garden Cottages, Melville Castle
- WRENN ID
- pale-oriel-jackdaw
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1991
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 304 670
- Coordinates
- 55.89186, -3.11335
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Garden Cottages at Melville Castle dates from around 1800 and is a single-storey, five-bay cottage located to the west of the garden farmhouse. The structure is built of random rubble with ashlar dressings.
The entrance elevation is irregular with five bays. There is a replacement timber panelled door positioned to the right of the centre, with a window in each of the flanking bays. To the outer left, there is a boarded door with a window in the bay to the right.
The rear elevation features three bays and includes a greenhouse addition set to the left of centre. There is a window flanking to the outer left and another window in the bay to the right.
The cottage has four-pane timber sash and case windows, with three-pane fixed windows at the rear. It has a grey slate piended roof, a single rendered stack to the left of centre, and cast-iron rainwater goods.
Local climate
Garden Cottages, Melville Castle 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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