Plenploth is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 November 2007. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Plenploth
- WRENN ID
- iron-jade-flax
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 November 2007
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Plenploth, TD1 2SU
- OS grid reference
- NT 438 485
- Coordinates
- 55.72746, -2.89553
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Plenploth is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 18th century, with later additions from the late 19th or early 20th century, and it may incorporate some earlier materials. The building is two stories high with an attic, featuring a rectangular plan and three bays. It has gabled wings on either side and a central entrance bay that projects forward, which includes a round-arched stair window on the front elevation. The exterior is finished in harled rubble with red sandstone margins.
The front elevation has a regular arrangement of windows, while the rear shows a more irregular pattern. There is a doorway located in the return elevation of the projecting entrance bay. To the north, there is a gabled wing, and to the south, a piend-roofed outbuilding with two timber-boarded doors. A conservatory from the 20th century is attached to the building.
The windows are predominantly timber sash and case with 12-pane glazing, and the stair window features a Gothick-arched glazing pattern. The building has flat-roofed dormers and ashlar-coped raised skews. The gablehead stacks are rendered and include thackstanes and short clay cans. The roof is covered with graded grey slate, and the rainwater goods are mostly made of cast iron.
There are boundary walls made of rubble with rubble coping that enclose the garden to the east and south.
Local climate
Plenploth receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings