2 Loanfoot Cottages, The Green, Skirling is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 March 1978. Cottage.

2 Loanfoot Cottages, The Green, Skirling

WRENN ID
pitched-moulding-cream
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 March 1978
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 077 390
Coordinates
55.6361, -3.46766
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Loanfoot Cottages, located on The Green in Skirling, were built around 1880. This is a row of five cottages constructed from sandstone rubble, topped with a slated roof.

Local climate

2 Loanfoot Cottages, The Green, Skirling sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,220 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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