Gardener's Cottage, Costerton House is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 March 2001. 1 related planning application.
Gardener's Cottage, Costerton House
- WRENN ID
- lost-portal-myrtle
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Midlothian
- Constituency
- Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 March 2001
- Address
- Gardener's Cottage, Costerton House, EH37 5ST
- OS grid reference
- NT 434 631
- Coordinates
- 55.85806, -2.90473
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Costerton House dates from the late 18th century and features a rectangular layout. It has tooled sandstone lower walls and brick upper walls topped with flat stone copes. Attached to the garden is a single-storey lean-to gardener's cottage, which is made of harled and painted rubble.
On the west elevation of the cottage, the entrance door is located off centre to the right, now enclosed within a modern sunroom. There is a small square window to the right and bipartite windows on both the far left and right flanks. The cottage also has small ashlar chimney stacks and projecting neck copes, with a replacement single can. A new bungalow is situated to the southeast elevation.
The north elevation of the cottage features a blank half gable. The east elevation has a small door on the right and a window on the left, with the left side now incorporated into a new structure. The cottage has 4-pane timber sash and case windows and a lean-to slate roof. The rainwater goods have been replaced.
Inside, the cottage has thick stone walls, lower ceilings, and smaller, deeper windows compared to the newer part of the property.
The walled garden's west elevation, now the principal elevation, consists of a high brick and stone wall with a small wooden door to the left, featuring ashlar surrounds and old metal door furniture. To the right is a new wrought-iron entrance gate, with a replacement stone wall adjoining the older cottage.
The north elevation of the garden is a high brick and stone wall with flat ashlar copes. The east elevation features a high brick wall with stone copes and a modern sliding metal gate located off centre to the left. The south elevation consists of a rubble wall with stone copes, which has been partially demolished at the west end to accommodate the modern bungalow.
Local climate
Gardener's Cottage, Costerton House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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