Carter's House, Main Street, Allanton is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 March 1997. Cottage.
Carter's House, Main Street, Allanton
- WRENN ID
- worn-brick-birch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1997
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 865 543
- Coordinates
- 55.78212, -2.21554
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carter's House is a later 19th-century terraced cottage located on Main Street in Allanton. It is a single-storey building with an attic, featuring a picturesque design and three bays. The exterior is constructed of stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings, while the rear is made of harl-pointed rubble, which includes a modern lean-to harled addition with a glazed porch at the center and left.
On the west elevation facing the street, there is a modern panelled door in the center with a letterbox and a plate glass fanlight above it. To the right, a stone-mullioned bipartite window is present, and to the left, there is a segmental-arched pend-opening with heavily channelled ashlar framing the arch.
The east elevation features a modern lean-to addition in the center and the left bay, with a glazed porch at the center. An outer right segmental-arched pend-opening is made of droved ashlar.
The roof is adorned with ornamental slating, alternating purple slates with green fishscale slate bands. Each flanking bay has curvilinear gabled ashlar dormers with ashlar finials, segmental-arched windows, and a round-headed panel at the dormerhead. A 19th-century flush skylight is located in the center, and the building has ashlar coped skews along with brick mutual stacks.
The interior has been significantly altered in 1996. The pend features setts on the ground with rubble walls flanking it.
Local climate
Carter's House, Main Street, Allanton 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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