Norman Cottage, Mellerstain House is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. Cottage.

Norman Cottage, Mellerstain House

WRENN ID
woven-basalt-larch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1971
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 645 392
Coordinates
55.64548, -2.5648
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Norman Cottage, located at Mellerstain House, is a late 19th-century single-storey cottage with a roughly square plan and a taller round tower attached to its north wall. Designed in the cottage orne style, the exterior is rendered. The entrance is situated in the centre of the southeast elevation. The roofs are steeply pitched and thatched with reeds, with the tower featuring a conical roof.

Local climate

Norman Cottage, Mellerstain House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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