Millbank Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 November 1998. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Millbank Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 November 1998
Type
Cottage
Address
Millbank Cottage, EH23 4SS
OS grid reference
NT 308 570
Coordinates
55.80167, -3.1042
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Millbank Cottage is a later 19th century single storey and attic cottage with an L-shaped plan and an adjoining outbuilding. It is constructed from coursed, stugged pink sandstone with droved dressings, featuring a base course, decorative surrounds, stop-chamfered reveals, an eaves course, and raised margins.

The east elevation is symmetrical, with a gabled porch that projects from the center bay of the ground floor. It has a segmental arched doorway with a panelled timber door, flanked by windows on both sides. The eaves cornice and stone roof are notable features, along with regular fenestration in the left and right bays of the ground floor. Above, there are 20th century box dormers.

The north elevation is asymmetrical, featuring a window off-center to the right of the ground floor and a bull's eye window set in the gable head. The west elevation is also asymmetrical and consists of two bays. It has a window off-center to the right of the left bay, an advanced single storey gabled bay to the right, and a small window set in a larger surround off-center to the right. There is a boarded timber door with a letterbox fanlight at the re-entrant angle to the left return, flanked by two windows on the right. The right return has two additional windows.

The south elevation is asymmetrical as well, with two windows off-center to the left of the ground floor and another bull's eye window in the gable head. The cottage has predominantly replacement two-pane uPVC windows with top hoppers. The roof is made of graded grey slate with a lead ridge, and it features coped stone skew walls with moulded skewputts. The gable head stacks are stugged and corniced, with circular cans, and there are cast iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen in 1998.

The outbuilding, attached to the west of the cottage, is a single storey structure made of bull-faced pink sandstone, connected by bull-faced coped sandstone walls. It features long and short droved dressings, irregular fenestration, and boarded timber doors, with a graded grey slate piended roof and lead ridges. The boundary walls surrounding the property are made of rubble with rubble coping on the west, north, and east sides of the house.

Local climate

Millbank Cottage 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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