Broachrigg Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1999. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Broachrigg Farmhouse

WRENN ID
tilted-cobble-dock
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1999
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Broachrigg Farmhouse, EH24 9DZ
OS grid reference
NT 286 610
Coordinates
55.83727, -3.14049
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Broachrigg Farmhouse is an early 19th century, two-storey, three-bay farmhouse with a rectangular plan, featuring later additions and alterations. The building is constructed from tooled, squared, and snecked sandstone rubble with droved dressings. Most windows have chamfered reveals, projecting cills, and the corners are accented with long and short diagonally droved quoins.

The north elevation, which serves as the entrance, is near-symmetrical. It has a polished doorway in the center of the ground floor, featuring an architrave and a vertically glazed timber door with a two-pane fanlight above. To the right, there is a window, while the left side has an altered tripartite window. The first floor has regular fenestration. A later 19th century lean-to addition is located on the outer left, which includes a single window.

The west elevation is blank.

The south elevation is asymmetrical and has three bays. It features a 20th century, flat-roofed, glazed timber porch in the center of the ground floor. To the right, there is a later 19th century addition with a timber door flanked by a window, and a window to the left bay. The first floor has regular fenestration in the center and left bays, with an enlarged window in the right bay.

The east elevation is mostly obscured by a lean-to addition, but it has a window in the center of the ground floor and a rooflight on the slate roof of the lean-to.

The farmhouse predominantly features 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and has a piended design with a lead ridge. There are harled, coped ridge stacks with octagonal cans and cast-iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1998.

Additionally, there is a boarded timber gate to the west of the house, along with a random rubble wall that has tooled semicircular coping.

Local climate

Broachrigg Farmhouse 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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