Butler's Cottage, Carmichael House is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971.
Butler's Cottage, Carmichael House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-tracery-thyme
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NS 936 391
- Coordinates
- 55.63423, -3.69166
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Butler's Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay building dating to circa 1900. It was originally constructed as the butler's residence for Carmichael House at the end of the 19th century and is an important ancillary building within the Carmichael estate. The cottage is square in plan and symmetrical, with advanced gabled bays flanking a central porch recess. It is constructed from squared and snecked whinstone rubble, with pale sandstone ashlar dressings. The windows are mullioned, bipartite, with raised cills, and contain plate-glass within timber sash and case frames. The roof is grey slate, with stepped skews, roll-moulded skewputts, coped end stacks with clay cans, and cast-iron rainwater goods. The eaves feature moulded timber bargeboarding. The cottage is shown on the 3rd edition Ordnance Survey Map of 1908. It forms a group value with Carmichael House and Laundry Cottage, which are listed separately.
Local climate
Butler's Cottage, Carmichael House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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