Ratho Cottage, 40 Rosetta Road, Peebles is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. House. 3 related planning applications.
Ratho Cottage, 40 Rosetta Road, Peebles
- WRENN ID
- tattered-rampart-sage
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 29 March 1995
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ratho Cottage, 40 Rosetta Road, Peebles, EH45 8HJ
- OS grid reference
- NT 248 408
- Coordinates
- 55.65501, -3.19638
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ratho Cottage is a two-storey, three-bay house built in 1886. It is constructed from whinstone with cream sandstone dressings, featuring heavily stugged long and short quoins and tabbed margins, as well as stop-chamfered arrises.
The west elevation has a central panelled door with a plate glass letterbox fanlight above it. The lintel is carved with the name "RATHO COTTAGE" and has a guilloche moulding. Above the door is a panelled datestone from 1886, adorned with terracotta heads in the corners and rope moulding. The ground floor is flanked by windows that have decorative carved lintels, while the first floor features windows set hard under the eaves in all bays.
The gable ends are blank, and there is a later door added at ground level to the north side. The windows are timber 4-pane sash and case, with plate glass lower sashes on the first floor. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are ashlar coped skews with gablet skewputts. The corniced whinstone apex stacks have sandstone dressings, with some featuring octagonal cans.
In front of the cottage, there is a low rubble boundary wall topped with saddleback ashlar coping and later railings.
Local climate
Ratho Cottage, 40 Rosetta Road, Peebles sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 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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