1 Easter Ulston Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 December 1993. 1 related planning application.
1 Easter Ulston Cottages
- WRENN ID
- grim-hammer-fen
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1993
- Address
- 1 Easter Ulston Cottages, TD8 6TF
- OS grid reference
- NT 670 219
- Coordinates
- 55.49056, -2.5229
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These are a pair of semi-detached cottages, built in the late 19th century, along with two further cottages forming a group of four. The cottages are constructed from cream-coloured squared and snecked sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings. The windows have ashlar mullions, and the eaves are bracketed. The gables have overhanging eaves and plain bargeboards.
The front elevation (south) is symmetrical, featuring a pair of gabled bays in the centre. The cottage to the right is slightly broader and projects forward. The ground floor windows are tripartite, while the upper floor windows are mostly bipartite, set within the gableheads. The doors are modern at No. 1 and boarded at No. 2, both with letterbox fanlights above. Single-storey bays flank the doors.
The east and west elevations are gabled, with windows facing north on the ground floor and centrally placed at first floor within the gableheads. A single-storey lean-to is recessed to the north side. The north elevation has a lean-to with a window in the outer bay and a window and back door in the inner bay. A bipartite window breaks the eaves with a gabled dormerhead above it on the first floor.
Cottages 3 and 4 are similar, but the front gable of No. 3 is not advanced, and No. 4 has a large, gabled, two-storey harled addition to the rear.
The windows are timber sash and case, with small diamond panes in the advanced gables; other windows mostly have plate glass, and the extension has modern windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped stacks in the centre of each block. Cast-iron guttering and downpipes are present. The statutory address covers numbers 1 to 4 inclusive, Easter Ulston Cottages.
Local climate
1 Easter Ulston Cottages receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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