Roadside Cottage, Arran Heritage Museum, Rosaburn, Brodick is a Grade B listed building in the North Ayrshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 January 1994. Cottage.

Roadside Cottage, Arran Heritage Museum, Rosaburn, Brodick

WRENN ID
heavy-moulding-snow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
North Ayrshire
Constituency
North Ayrshire and Arran MP: Irene Campbell (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 January 1994
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 008 367
Coordinates
55.58335, -5.16125
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Roadside Cottage, located at the Arran Heritage Museum in Rosaburn, Brodick, is an early 19th century single-storey, rectangular-plan detached cottage. The exterior features white painted rubble with ashlar quoins and a slate roof, complemented by coped end stacks.

On the front elevation, there is a centrally placed two-leaf boarded door with a four-pane window to the right and two rooflights. The rear elevation includes a boarded door to the right and an eight-pane window to the left, along with another rooflight.

Inside, the partitions have been removed, revealing a chimneypiece with ashlar cheeks and a lintel, as well as a sway.

Local climate

Roadside Cottage, Arran Heritage Museum, Rosaburn, Brodick sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,610 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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