White Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Tollhouse, residential.

White Cottage

WRENN ID
ghost-roof-nightshade
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
23 February 1971
Type
Tollhouse, residential
OS grid reference
NT 231 402
Coordinates
55.64999, -3.22234
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

White Cottage is a late 18th century building with 19th century additions. It is a single-storey former tollhouse situated on a raised basement, featuring a rectangular plan and originally designed with three bays. The building has been extended to form an L-shaped residence with a gabled entrance porch. The exterior is finished with harled and limewashed stone, complemented by painted sandstone window dressings.

On the southwest elevation, access is provided by steps leading down to a central projecting gabled porch that includes an arch-headed window. To the left of the porch is a timber segmental-arched entrance door, while the right side is blind. The outer bays feature simple windows with painted stone lintels, margins, and sills.

The northwest elevation has three regularly placed bays that face the roadside. The northeast elevation includes a window on the ground left, with a projecting bay (likely part of the original design) to the right, which opens to the basement. There is also a window on the left return.

The southeast elevation is mostly blind, except for a window located off-centre to the left of the basement, and features a central wallhead stack. The principal windows on the southwest elevation have 12 lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames, while the gable of the porch has a 2-pane timber sash and case arched window. The remaining elevations are fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with piended grey slate, featuring lead and aluminium ridging and flashings. The later porch has a pitched roof with exposed rafters, purlins, and plain bargeboards. The building has painted cast-iron rainwater goods and tall, harled and painted stacks on the east and west sides, both topped with heavy plain neck copes and paired hexagonal cans, one of which has been replaced on the west stack.

The interior has been in private residential use since 2001.

Local climate

White Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 44 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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