2 Easter Ulston Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1993. 1 related planning application.

2 Easter Ulston Cottages

WRENN ID
swift-terrace-rye
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 December 1993
Address
2 Easter Ulston Cottages, TD8 6TF
OS grid reference
NT 670 219
Coordinates
55.49061, -2.52281
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These are two pairs of semi-detached, two-storey cottages built in the late 19th century. The cottages are constructed of cream-coloured squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings, including ashlar mullions. Bracketed eaves, overhanging gables with plain bargeboards, and coped stacks are notable features. Cast-iron guttering and downpipes are also present.

The symmetrical front elevation features a pair of gabled bays in the centre, the one to the right being slightly broader and advanced. These bays contain tripartite windows on the ground floor and bipartite windows in the gableheads. Modern doors are present on No. 1, while No. 2 has a boarded door. Each cottage has a letterbox fanlight above a small flanking bay.

The east and west elevations are gabled, with windows to the north at ground floor level and centrally positioned at the first floor within the gableheads. Single-storey lean-to additions are recessed to the north. The north elevation features a lean-to with a window in the outer bay, a window, and a back door to the inner bay on the ground floor; a bipartite window breaking the eaves is situated on the first floor, topped with a gabled dormerhead.

Nos. 3 and 4 are similar in design, except the front gable of No. 3 is not advanced. No. 4 has a large, gabled, two-storey harled addition to the rear.

The cottages originally featured timber sash and case windows with small diamond panes in the upper lights of the advanced gables, while other windows had plate glass. Modern windows are present in the rear extension. Grey slates cover the roofs. The statutory address covers numbers 1 to 4 inclusive, Easter Ulston Cottages.

Local climate

2 Easter Ulston Cottages receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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