Aldie 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. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Aldie Cottage, Tower Road, Darnick

WRENN ID
drifting-gravel-foxglove
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
Cottage
Address
Aldie Cottage, Tower Road, Darnick, TD6 9AX
OS grid reference
NT 533 342
Coordinates
55.59992, -2.74176
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Aldie Cottage is an earlier 19th century building that is single-storey with an attic and features three bays. The central door has a cornice and a blocking course, and there is a modern glazed porch added. The cottage has two later canted and piended attic dormers, and a lower single-storey piended wing extends to the east. The exterior is made of coursed squared rubble with contrasting dressings, while the flanks are harled. It has rectangular end-stacks and a slated roof.

Local climate

Aldie 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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