Braehead Cottage, Main Street, Leitholm is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 February 1999. Cottage.
Braehead Cottage, Main Street, Leitholm
- WRENN ID
- secret-gable-swift
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1999
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 788 440
- Coordinates
- 55.68962, -2.33867
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Braehead Cottage, located on Main Street in Leitholm, dates from the late 18th to early 19th century. It was raised to two storeys and converted into a single property with later alterations. The cottage is a two-storey, four-bay structure, originally consisting of two two-bay cottages, and features a single-storey garage block attached to the right.
The building is constructed with whinstone and sandstone rubble at the ground level, while the first floor is predominantly sandstone rubble, accented with tooled rubble sandstone dressings. It has rubble quoins and predominantly droved long and short surrounds to the openings, along with projecting cills.
On the southeast (entrance) elevation, there is a modern timber panelled door offset to the right of centre, with a single window aligned above it on the first floor. There are single windows on both floors in the remaining bays to the left and right. The garage block to the right has a two-leaf boarded timber garage door, also offset to the right.
The northwest (rear) elevation was not seen in 1998. The property features uPVC glazing throughout, a grey slate roof with stone coped skews, and brick apex stacks. The garage has a corrugated-iron roof.
The site is enclosed by a low coped rubble boundary wall at the front.
Local climate
Braehead Cottage, Main Street, Leitholm 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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