2 Marchmont Estate Cottages, Marchmont House is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 August 1999. Cottage.
2 Marchmont Estate Cottages, Marchmont House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-spire-spring
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 746 485
- Coordinates
- 55.72947, -2.40457
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Marchmont Estate Cottages, built around 1900 with later additions and alterations, are a mirrored pair of two-storey, three-bay gabled cottages that together form a symmetrical six-bay block. There are flat-roofed, single-storey garage additions on the outer left and right, as well as single-storey additions at the rear. The front is constructed of squared and snecked stugged red sandstone, with cream sandstone dressings, while the sides and rear are made of harl-pointed rubble. The building features stugged quoins and stugged long and short surrounds to lightly droved, stop-chamfered openings, with sandstone mullions on the bipartite windows and projecting cills. The rear additions are dry-dashed.
On the southwest (entrance) elevation, there is a two-bay gabled range at the center with bipartite windows in both bays on both floors, with the upper windows breaking the eaves. Boarded timber doors are located in the bays to the right and left, each with 2-pane fanlights. There are also bipartite windows in both floors of the outer right and left bays, with gabled upper windows that break the eaves.
The northeast (rear) elevation features a flat-roofed addition to the left and a lean-to addition to the right. The front has lower 4-pane upper glazing in timber sash and case windows, while some modern windows are present at the rear, along with rooflights. The roof is covered with graded grey slate and has stone ridging and timber bargeboards. The building includes cast-iron rainwater goods and has corniced, brick-built ridge and apex stacks with various circular cans.
The interiors were not seen in 1998.
Local climate
2 Marchmont Estate Cottages, Marchmont House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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