Oxton Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 November 1993. House. 1 related planning application.

Oxton Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm

WRENN ID
scarred-stair-sorrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 November 1993
Type
House
Address
Oxton Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm, TD5 8RA
OS grid reference
NT 819 281
Coordinates
55.54629, -2.28733
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Oxton Cottage is a late 18th century, two-storey, four-bay house that is part of an irregular terrace on Main Street in Town Yetholm. The building is rendered and features concrete surrounds around its openings, with a concrete base course and quoin strips.

On the entrance elevation, there is a doorway in the center with a window above it on the first floor. To the outer right, there are bipartite windows with timber mullions, while the outer left has a bipartite window at ground level and a single window above it on the first floor. The penultimate bay from the left also has a single window on the first floor.

The cottage has four-pane sash and case windows and is topped with a grey slate roof, featuring a brick mutual stack on the north side.

Local climate

Oxton Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm 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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