Ptarmigan Cottage, Uddington Village is a Grade C listed building in the South Lanarkshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 December 1980. Cottage.

Ptarmigan Cottage, Uddington Village

WRENN ID
tired-oriel-rain
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
South Lanarkshire
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
31 December 1980
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NS 862 334
Coordinates
55.58141, -3.8059
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ptarmigan Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built in the mid-19th century. The exterior features tooled, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and painted cills. It has a central door and a single 8-pane sash window located in the right bay. To the left, there is a canted tripartite window set in a shallow gable that is topped with a spike finial, along with a blocked arrow-slit in the gable. The cottage has straight skews and gables that also feature spike finials, and it is topped with a slate roof.

Local climate

Ptarmigan Cottage, Uddington Village sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 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 55 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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