Borestone Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Cottage.
Borestone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lesser-niche-hazel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1981
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NN 973 183
- Coordinates
- 56.34643, -3.66264
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Borestone Cottage, built around 1825, is a single-storey building featuring a symmetrical design with two windows and a central door, flanked by slightly narrower one-window wings. The cottage is constructed from rubble with margins and has broad-eaved piend roofs, along with a single chimney located at the center.
Local climate
Borestone Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 69 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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