1 Farm Cottages, Swinton Bridge End is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 September 1998. 2 related planning applications.

1 Farm Cottages, Swinton Bridge End

WRENN ID
young-hammer-indigo
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 September 1998
Address
1 Farm Cottages, Swinton Bridge End, TD11 3HY
OS grid reference
NT 824 468
Coordinates
55.71517, -2.28014
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

3 Farm Cottages, located at Swinton Bridge End, date from the late 19th century and feature later additions and alterations. The cottages are two single-storey buildings with attics, forming symmetrical five-bay blocks, with the eastern cottage converted into one unit. The central gabled bays are advanced, and there is a full-length flat-roofed addition to the rear of the western block. The exterior is constructed from tooled cream sandstone rubble with droved sandstone dressings, including droved quoins and long and short surrounds to the openings. The cottages have tripartite windows with narrow sidelights and projecting cills, and crowstepped gables throughout.

On the southeast entrance elevation of cottages 1 and 2, the central gabled bay features a projecting tripartite window at ground level, with a single window centered beneath the apex. Boarded timber doors are recessed in the bays to the left and right, each with a 4-pane fanlight above. There are tripartite windows in the outer left and right bays, with piended bipartite dormers aligned above. Cottage 3 mirrors this design but has a blocked door opening offset to the right of center, which was previously the entrance to cottage 4.

The northwest rear elevation of cottages 1 and 2 has regularly spaced single windows in the full-length flat-roofed addition. Cottage 3 has a single window centered at ground level, with a gabled dormer breaking the eaves, offset to the left above.

The cottages feature 8- and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with grey slate roofs, moulded skewputts, and replacement rainwater goods. There are squat sandstone apex stacks with circular cans.

The interiors were not seen in 1998.

There are ancillary structures made of harl-pointed sandstone rubble with tooled sandstone dressings, including mono-pitched single-storey outbuildings at the rear with boarded timber doors. The interiors of these outbuildings were also not seen in 1998.

The site is partially enclosed by rubble-coped garden walls made of rubble.

Local climate

1 Farm Cottages, Swinton Bridge End receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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