Cottage 2, Primsidemill is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 November 1993. House.

Cottage 2, Primsidemill

WRENN ID
standing-steeple-violet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 November 1993
Type
House
OS grid reference
NT 813 265
Coordinates
55.5324, -2.29698
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cottage 2 at Primsidemill is a mid to later 18th century, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical house located at the center of a terrace of three. It is constructed from harled rubble sandstone and features a battered base course.

On the south elevation, there is a central doorway with a modern door that includes a glazed panel. Above the door, there is a single window on the first floor, flanked by widely spaced bays. The first-floor windows are positioned under the eaves.

The cottage has 8-pane sash and case windows and is topped with a grey slate roof that sweeps at the eaves. There is a rubble stack on the eastern mutual gable.

Local climate

Cottage 2, Primsidemill receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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