1 and 2 Railway Cottages, Crumstane Lye, Duns is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996. Cottage.

1 and 2 Railway Cottages, Crumstane Lye, Duns

WRENN ID
empty-copper-ochre
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
OS grid reference
NT 809 535
Coordinates
55.77535, -2.3053
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

1 and 2 Railway Cottages, located at Crumstane Lye in Duns, date from around 1890. These are single-storey, six-bay cottages constructed of stugged ashlar, featuring stop-chamfered droved ashlar margins around the windows. The side elevations are made of stugged squared and snecked ashlar, and there is a harled flat-roofed addition at the center of each cottage. Each cottage has a gabled porch with timber posts and tapering pilasters on the southeast (principal) elevation, which includes a boarded door and a two-pane fanlight above, along with wrought-iron hinges. The flanking bays have tripartite windows.

The cottages have timber sash and case windows, with four-pane upper sashes and plate glass in the lower sashes. The roof is covered with slate, featuring exposed rafters and terracotta ridge tiles, and there are ashlar coped wallheads with shared stacks. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1995.

Local climate

1 and 2 Railway Cottages, Crumstane Lye, Duns receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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