Brownsbank Cottage is a Grade A listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 September 1987. 1 related planning application.
Brownsbank Cottage
- WRENN ID
- fossil-remnant-wind
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 September 1987
- Address
- Brownsbank Cottage, ML12 6QY
- OS grid reference
- NT 074 418
- Coordinates
- 55.66138, -3.47193
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Brownsbank Cottage is a small, probable 19th-century farm labourer's cottage, likely built in the second quarter of the 18th century. It is a single-story, three-bay building. The cottage is rubble-built with ashlar dressings, and has sashes with a four-pane glazing pattern. End stacks provide chimney functionality, and the roof is slate. A large porch at the front and a kitchen at the rear have been added and are rendered with harling. The poet Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve, 1892-1978) resided in the cottage from 1951 until his death in 1978. MacDiarmid was a central figure in the Scottish literary renaissance and is considered by some to be Scotland's greatest poet since Burns. An inscribed slab at the doorstep commemorates MacDiarmid’s poem, "The little white Rose," which includes the lines "The rose of all the world is not for me/I want for my part/Only the little white rose of Scotland/That smells sharp and sweet and breaks the heart." Wooden sheds and a glazed timber summerhouse are situated to the northwest of the cottage.
Local climate
Brownsbank Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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