Virginia Cottage, Tower Road, Darnick is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. House.
Virginia Cottage, Tower Road, Darnick
- WRENN ID
- noble-transept-smoke
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, Tower Road, Darnick, TD6 9AX
- OS grid reference
- NT 532 343
- Coordinates
- 55.60032, -2.7435
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is an earlier 19th century building that stands two storeys high and features a three-bay south front. The central door is located behind a modern glazed porch, and the right-hand window has been enlarged. The rear, or north elevation, has undergone significant alterations and is harled, with straight skews and a slated roof that includes rectangular end stacks.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage, Tower Road, Darnick 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 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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