Cottage at Former Walled Garden, Erskine House is a Grade B listed building in the Renfrewshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1979. Cottage.
Cottage at Former Walled Garden, Erskine House
- WRENN ID
- second-passage-sorrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Renfrewshire
- Constituency
- Paisley and Renfrewshire North MP: Alison Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NS 452 722
- Coordinates
- 55.91812, -4.47752
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The cottage at the former walled garden of Erskine House dates back to the early 19th century. It is a single-storey structure built from coursed rubble with droved ashlar dressing and margins. The front features a central door flanked by a rectangular fanlight and two windows, while the rear also has two windows. The original glazing remains intact. There are lean-to outshots at the gables, and the roof is low-pitched, covered with slate, and has short coped stacks.
Local climate
Cottage at Former Walled Garden, Erskine House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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