The Laws Cottage, Laws House is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 October 1997. Cottage.
The Laws Cottage, Laws House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-rood-plum
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1997
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 832 507
- Coordinates
- 55.74968, -2.26781
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Laws Cottage, also known as Laws House, is a later 19th-century, asymmetrical, single-storey cottage with an attic, designed in an L-plan with gabled roofs. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone, featuring polished, stugged, and droved sandstone dressings. It has a raised base course, overhanging timber bracketed eaves, and timber bargeboards. The building showcases tooled quoins, tooled long and short surrounds to openings, stop-chamfered reveals, sandstone mullions, and projecting cills, with the ground floor windows supported by corbelled brackets beneath architraved cills.
On the south elevation, a gabled bay is advanced to the outer right, featuring a projecting 5-light window at ground level and a bipartite window above. To the left, there is a catslide verandah supported by stop-chamfered timber columns that divide the arcaded bays, with decorative iron hinges on a boarded timber door set back within. A bipartite window is located at ground level in the bay to the outer left.
The west elevation has a gabled bay advanced to the outer left, with a 5-light window at ground level and a bipartite window above. To the right, there is a decorative 4-light glazing row set back, with a shouldered-arched alcove featuring a bracketed cill located behind the verandah in the bay recessed to the outer right.
On the north elevation, there is a single window off-set to the left of centre at ground level, and a narrow single window in a bay off-set to the right. A lean-to porch is situated in the bay to the outer left.
The east elevation features bipartite windows on both floors in the gabled bay to the outer right, with a single window in the subsequent bay to the left.
The cottage has plate glass timber sash and case windows, a graded grey slate roof with plain terracotta ridging, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Sandstone ridge and wallhead stacks are corniced, with various circular cans present.
The interior was not seen in 1997.
Local climate
The Laws Cottage, Laws House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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