Gifford's Stone House, Main Street, West Linton is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 June 1989. Cottage.
Gifford's Stone House, Main Street, West Linton
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-moulding-coral
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1989
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 150 518
- Coordinates
- 55.7522, -3.35577
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gifford's Stone House is a late 19th century single-storey and attic cottage positioned at right angles to the street. It features remarkable 17th century carved panels set into the east elevation and has a tall shouldered chimney stack. The building is constructed from bull-nosed red sandstone ashlar, accented with contrasting yellow dressings and long and short quoins. The south elevation has a central door flanked by two 4-pane windows, along with two wallhead piended dormers. The roof is covered with piended slate. A cubical sundial topped with a ball finial on four scrolls is located at the southwest wallhead angle.
The east elevation of the cottage showcases three unusually elaborate carved figurative panels, dated 1660 and attributed to James Gifford, a stonemason, sculptor, and portioner of West Linton.
Local climate
Gifford's Stone House, Main Street, West Linton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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