Mertoun Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 November 1993. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Mertoun Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm
- WRENN ID
- tilted-kitchen-vetch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1993
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mertoun Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm, TD5 8RG
- OS grid reference
- NT 818 278
- Coordinates
- 55.54397, -2.2885
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mertoun Cottage is a mid to later 18th century, two-storey, three-bay thatched cottage located on Main Street in Town Yetholm. It is part of an irregular terrace and features a symmetrical design. The cottage is rendered with black painted timber lintels and has a base course. The walls were probably originally battered but are now rendered.
On the east elevation, which serves as the entrance, the bays are grouped towards the centre. It has small windows and a doorway in the central bay that features a boarded door and a bracketed canopy.
The south elevation has a gable end with a window to the right at ground level and a small window to the right in the gablehead. The cottage has plate glass in sash and case windows and a steeply pitched reed-thatched roof with tiled ridge coping. There is a substantial harled chimneystack on the south gablehead and a harled mutual chimneystack on the north gable.
Local climate
Mertoun Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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