Doucot Cottage, Dawyck Mill is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 June 1982. Mill.

Doucot Cottage, Dawyck Mill

WRENN ID
silver-rood-nettle
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
21 June 1982
Type
Mill
OS grid reference
NT 177 361
Coordinates
55.61235, -3.30782
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Doucot Cottage, located at Dawyck Mill, is a late 18th century building that has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a single-storey structure made of rubble, set into a hill, with a two-storey bowed end on the north side. The cottage features a projecting gabled porch on the east, which includes a simple fanlight. The windows have been altered and include brick details. The roof is a slate piended design.

Local climate

Doucot Cottage, Dawyck Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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