Madera Cottage, Whitsome is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 October 1997. Cottage.

Madera Cottage, Whitsome

WRENN ID
grim-flue-sparrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 October 1997
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 865 506
Coordinates
55.74927, -2.21552
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Madera Cottage is an earlier 19th century single-storey cottage with an attic, featuring four bays and a recessed garage entrance on the outer left. The exterior is finished in painted render with projecting cills.

On the northwest elevation facing Main Street, there is a three-leaf boarded timber door offset to the left of centre, accompanied by a narrow letterbox fanlight. The recessed boarded timber garage door is located in the outer left bay, with a gabled dormer directly above it. The two remaining bays to the right of the entrance contain single windows, and there is another gabled dormer in the outer right bay.

The windows are timber sash and case with four-pane glazing. The roof is covered in grey slate, featuring raised stone skews and cast-iron rainwater goods. The cottage has red brick apex stacks with various circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1997.

Local climate

Madera Cottage, Whitsome receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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