25 Main Street, Temple is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Cottage.

25 Main Street, Temple

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Constituency
Midlothian MP: Kirsty McNeill (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 317 585
Coordinates
55.81547, -3.0914
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building at 25 Main Street in Temple dates back to 1761 and consists of two traditional cottages that have been converted into one single-storey cottage. It has a rectangular plan with later additions at the rear. The exterior is made of random rubble with dressed stone details, featuring vertical quoins and raised surrounds around the windows.

The west elevation is nearly symmetrical, with replacement boarded timber doorways located in the penultimate bays on both the left and right sides. The doorway on the right has a five-pane fanlight above it and a basket-arched design with an impost detail. A tooled lintel above reads "A 1761" and features a circular carved panel in the center. The remaining bays have regular window arrangements.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, with an infilled window on the left at ground level and a small window opening slightly off-center to the left of the gable head. There is also a harled addition on the outer right side.

The east and north elevations were not visible during the 1998 inspection.

The cottage features 12-pane timber sash and case windows and is topped with a graded grey slate roof that has a lead ridge. The skews are cement faced, and there are coped gable head stacks, with the left stack made of stone and the right stack cement faced, both having circular cans. The building also has cast iron rainwater goods.

The interior was not seen during the 1998 inspection.

Local climate

25 Main Street, Temple 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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