Farm Workers' Cottage, The Hardens is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996.
Farm Workers' Cottage, The Hardens
- WRENN ID
- long-ledge-hemlock
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1996
- OS grid reference
- NT 752 539
- Coordinates
- 55.77795, -2.39543
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Farm Workers' Cottage at The Hardens is a row of three traditional single-storey cottages built in the later 19th century. Each cottage is three bays wide and constructed from squared and snecked sandstone, featuring stop-chamfered droved ashlar arrises and an eaves course.
On the east elevation, each cottage has a central stone porch with a shoulder-arched gable and a ball finial, leading to a boarded door with a two-pane fanlight above. There are timber mullioned bipartite windows in each of the flanking bays, and above each cottage, there is a gabled dormer with timber mullions.
The west elevation includes a harled lean-to addition at the center of each cottage. The cottages have lying-pane timber sash and case windows and a red-tiled roof that incorporates bands of fish-scale tiles, along with ornamental ridge cresting. Brick stacks are present at the mutual and wallhead locations.
The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1995.
Local climate
Farm Workers' Cottage, The Hardens 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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