Fern Cottage, South Street, Gavinton is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996. Cottage.
Fern Cottage, South Street, Gavinton
- WRENN ID
- under-flagstone-equinox
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1996
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Cottage, South Street, Gavinton, TD11 3QS
- OS grid reference
- NT 769 521
- Coordinates
- 55.76211, -2.36907
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fern Cottage is an early 19th century, low single-storey, three-bay cottage that has undergone later alterations and additions. It features a modern monopitch projection to the south from the east. The exterior is finished in painted render, with the later projection harled.
On the north elevation facing South Street, there is a window in the right bay. The south elevation has a boarded door at the center flanked by windows in each bay, with a small window in the left bay. There is also a window on the return west elevation of the projection on the outer right.
The cottage has 8- and 4-pane timber sash and case windows, along with a modern window in the projection. The roof is slate, with thick, irregular, and graded slates on the south side, smooth later slates on the north side featuring a diamond pattern at the center, and a modern projection. There is a brick wallhead stack on the east side and a rendered wallhead stack on the west side.
The interior was not seen in 1995.
Local climate
Fern Cottage, South Street, Gavinton receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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