Cherry Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 1993. Cottage.

Cherry Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan

WRENN ID
unlit-thatch-flax
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Constituency
Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 February 1993
Type
Cottage
Address
Cherry Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan, DD2 5ET
OS grid reference
NO 311 300
Coordinates
56.45724, -3.11811
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cherry Cottage, located on Main Street in Longforgan, is an earlier 19th-century semi-detached pair of single-storey, three-bay cottages. The exterior features coursed pink rubble masonry with ashlar dressings, while the upper part of the west gable is rendered and lined. The cottages have a slate roof and include 12-pane sash and case windows, along with semi-glazed doors. There are brick ridge stacks at the center and east, and a rendered and lined stack on the west.

On the northeast elevation, each cottage has a door in the center, with a window to the left and right, and an additional window on the left return gable. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Cherry Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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