4 Timpendean Farm Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1993. 2 related planning applications.
4 Timpendean Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tired-keep-mallow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1993
- Address
- 4 Timpendean Farm Cottages, TD8 6SS
- OS grid reference
- NT 630 231
- Coordinates
- 55.50064, -2.58615
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
5 and 6 Timpendean Farm Cottages are a pair of semi-detached cottages built in 1851. They are designed in a symmetrical layout with a single storey and attic, featuring gabled roofs and aligned along the road. The cottages form a shallow U-plan group, with heavy harl-pointing and cream sandstone ashlar with chamfered margins at the ground floor. Each cottage has boarded doors set in pointed-arch surrounds, overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, and purlins, along with box dormers.
The end cottages have ashlar mullions at the ground floor and timber above. The road elevation of each end cottage has three bays, with a projecting gabled outer bay that includes a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window in the gable head. The central bay features a door, while the inner bay has a bipartite window at ground level and a dormer above. The western cottage displays the date 1851 inscribed on the ground floor lintel.
The outer elevation of the end cottages is single storey with two bays, featuring a door to the north (rear) and a bipartite window to the south. The inner elevations show a blank gable with a window to the south at ground level. The rear elevation of the end cottages has an outer gable with windows at ground level and in the gable head, while the inner bay is blank with a gable above. The eastern cottage has a two-storey flat-roofed extension to the inner bay.
The centre cottage has a road elevation with five bays, where the centre bay is blank at ground level but has a small gable above with a bipartite window featuring diamond panes. There are doors to the inner bays, and the outer bays have broad windows at ground level with dormers above. The end elevations of the centre cottage are blank gables, and the rear elevation includes windows at ground level and a central dormer, along with a two-storey flat-roofed extension to the left.
The cottages feature timber casement windows at ground level and in the dormers, with eight-pane windows at the front and four-pane sash and case windows in the gable heads. The roofs are covered with purple slates, and the eaves and doors are painted green. The cottages also have coped harled stacks on the side gables and end ridges.
Local climate
4 Timpendean Farm Cottages receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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