Hirsel 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.

Hirsel Cottage, Main Street, Town Yetholm

WRENN ID
drifting-bastion-cedar
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
OS grid reference
NT 818 278
Coordinates
55.54409, -2.28845
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Hirsel Cottage is a late 18th century, two-storey house that is part of an irregular terrace. It has three symmetrical bays and features a rendered exterior with painted stone dressings, a battered base course, and raised margins.

On the entrance elevation, there is a central doorway with a deep-set door and a letterbox fanlight above it, along with a window on the first floor directly above the door. There are single windows in the outer bays to the left and right. The windows are 8-pane sash and case style. The roof is covered with grey slate and has broad harled mutual stacks, along with saw-tooth coping on the skews.

Local climate

Hirsel 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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