Laundry Cottage, Carmichael House is a Grade B listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 January 1971.
Laundry Cottage, Carmichael House
- WRENN ID
- final-cloister-pine
- 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 935 391
- Coordinates
- 55.63381, -3.69259
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Laundry Cottage, part of the Carmichael House estate, dates to the late 18th century with subsequent alterations. Originally a laundry block, it consists of a single-storey and attic, three-bay, rectangular cottage with lower, single-storey wings flanking it; the west wing has two bays and the east wing has three. The walls are constructed of whinstone rubble with pale sandstone ashlar dressings. The cottage roof features a pair of mullioned bipartite dormers that break the eaves. Some mullioned bipartite windows are present on the flanking wings.
The windows are timber sash and case with plate glass, covered by a grey slate roof. The roof has coped skews and shouldered skewputts, along with coped end stacks and clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods are also present.
Laundry Cottage is part of a group with the remnants of Carmichael House and Butlers Cottage and is shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey Map from 1856-9. It is a well-detailed example of an 18th century estate laundry building, altered in the mid 19th century when the detached wings of Carmichael House were connected by a Baronial addition (now partially demolished). The cottage has more recently been internally refurbished for use as holiday home accommodation.
Local climate
Laundry 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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