4 Easter Ulston Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1993. 1 related planning application.
4 Easter Ulston Cottages
- WRENN ID
- roaming-outpost-indigo
- 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 Easter Ulston Cottages, TD8 6TF
- OS grid reference
- NT 670 220
- Coordinates
- 55.49069, -2.52255
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building comprises four late 19th-century semi-detached cottages, arranged as two pairs. They are constructed of cream-coloured squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings, ashlar mullions, and bracketed eaves. The gables have overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards.
The front (south) elevation is symmetrical, with a pair of gabled bays centrally positioned. The bay on the right is slightly broader and projects forward. The ground floor features tripartite windows, while the gableheads contain bipartite windows. The front doors are modern at No. 1 and boarded at No. 2, both with letterbox fanlights above. Single-storey bays flank the front doors.
The east and west elevations are gabled, with windows to the north at ground level and centrally at the first floor, within the gableheads. A single-storey, lean-to addition is recessed to the north. The north elevation features lean-to extensions with windows in the outer bays, and a window and back door to the inner bays on the ground floor. First floor windows are bipartite and break the eaves with gabled dormerheads.
Nos. 3 and 4 are similar, except that the front gable of No. 3 does not project forward, and No. 4 has a large, gabled, two-storey harled addition to the rear.
The windows are timber sash and case, with small diamond panes in the advanced gables; otherwise, they are plate glass, with modern replacements in the extension. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped stacks at the centre of each block. Cast iron guttering and downpipes are present. The statutory address covers all four cottages, numbered 1 to 4 inclusive, Easter Ulston Cottages.
Local climate
4 Easter Ulston Cottages receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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