1 Farm Cottages, Pinkie, Manderston is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 February 1996.

1 Farm Cottages, Pinkie, Manderston

WRENN ID
third-gallery-russet
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 February 1996
OS grid reference
NT 807 536
Coordinates
55.77601, -2.30848
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Farm Cottages in Pinkie, Manderston, date from the later 19th century and have undergone some alterations and additions. They are a single-storey row of cottages with an attic, featuring nine bays and incorporating the Pinkie smithy. The exterior is made of squared and snecked stugged sandstone with stop-chamfered droved dressings around the margins, while the side elevations are constructed from harl-pointed rubble. The rear of each cottage has harled later additions, and stone mullions are present throughout.

On the southwest elevation, the nine bays include a central gabled porch with an intricate pierced barge-board and square-plan supporting columns that taper towards the base. The porch has a shouldered lintel and a boarded door with wrought-iron ornamental hinges, topped by a 2-pane letterbox fanlight. Each of the flanking bays features a tripartite window, with a bipartite window located in the gabled dormer above in the attic. The three outer right bays mirror this arrangement, while the inner left bay has a bipartite window at ground level. The outer right has a gabled bay with a bipartite window on the first floor. The three-bay group on the outer left mirrors the three-bay group on the outer right, except for the porch and a split boarded door.

The northeast elevation has a rubble addition projecting from the outer right, along with harled additions at the center of each cottage. The windows are timber lying-pane sash and case style, and the cottages have a slate roof with brick stacks. The dormers feature timber barge-boarding with kingposts and timber finials.

The interior was not seen in 1995, but there is a furnace in place in the smithy, which is part of the outer three-bay group on the left. A timber ladder provides access to the attic storey. An iron turning wheel is located in front of the smithy.

Local climate

1 Farm Cottages, Pinkie, Manderston receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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