Cheviot View, Polwarth is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 August 1999. Cottage.

Cheviot View, Polwarth

WRENN ID
dusk-clay-birch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 August 1999
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 743 501
Coordinates
55.74383, -2.41053
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cheviot View is a cottage dated 1809, with later additions and alterations. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has a rectangular plan with three bays. There is a separate single-storey ancillary block at the rear, which has been linked by a porch, forming an L-shape, with a further lean-to addition beyond. The front is constructed from harl-pointed, squared, and coursed tooled red sandstone rubble, with droved sandstone dressings. The sides and rear are finished in harl-pointed rubble, featuring droved quoins and droved long and short surrounds to the openings, along with flush cills.

On the southeast (entrance) elevation, there is a boarded timber door at the center of the ground level, with a lintel dated '1809'. There are single windows in the flanking bays at ground level, and slate-hung gabled dormers aligned above. The northeast (side) elevation includes a gabled block to the left with a single window at ground level on the outer left and a small attic light offset to the left of center. To the right, there is a single window in a flat-roofed porch. A catslide window breaks the eaves in the single-storey block adjoining to the right, which has a lean-to addition on the outer right.

The northwest (rear) elevation features the original cottage with a single window offset to the right of center, and a gabled projection on the outer right with a lean-to addition at the front to the left. The southwest (side) elevation has a gabled block to the right with a square window at ground level on the outer left and a small attic window offset to the right of center. There is a boarded timber door to the left in the porch linking to the single-storey block on the outer left.

The front features border-glazed timber sash and case windows, while the dormers have border-glazed timber casements. The rear has 6-pane windows. The roofs are covered in grey slate, with stone skews and cast-iron rainwater goods. There is a corniced sandstone apex stack on the southwest side and a brick-built apex stack on the northeast side, both with circular cans.

The interior was not seen in 1998.

Local climate

Cheviot View, Polwarth receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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