Cathedral Cottage, The Cross, Dunblane is a Grade B listed building in the Stirling local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Cathedral Cottage, The Cross, Dunblane

WRENN ID
brooding-floor-heron
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Stirling
Constituency
Stirling and Strathallan MP: Chris Kane (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Cottage
Address
Cathedral Cottage, The Cross, Dunblane, FK15 0AQ
OS grid reference
NN 781 013
Coordinates
56.18891, -3.96475
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Cathedral Cottage, located at The Cross in Dunblane, is a pair of asymmetrical semi-detached cottages built in the mid-18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th century. These two-storey, three-bay cottages have a rectangular plan and feature yellow sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings, although some windows and architraves at the west and rear are made of concrete. The cottages have architraved openings, and there is a base course present only on Cathedral Cottage.

On the east elevation, St Clement's Cottage is positioned to the left. It has a later 20th-century boarded timber door in the left bay, with a window in the central bay and another window in the right bay, which is asymmetrically arranged. The upper bay of the right side formerly had an entrance with a forestair. Cathedral Cottage is to the right, featuring an entrance left of center with a later 20th-century boarded timber door. There is an outline of a former window with long and short surrounds above to the right, and windows in each flanking bay that are regularly disposed, with the left bay showing remains of earlier long and short surrounds.

The west elevation has a wing with a double gable end that projects to the right, where openings have been enlarged or inserted. There is a late 20th-century glazed extension set back to the left on the ground floor, with a window above that has also been inserted or enlarged. The north elevation features a gable end that adjoins Cross Cottage, while the south elevation has a blank harled gable end that adjoins the former manse cart or carriage house at the ground floor.

The principal east elevation mainly showcases 12-pane timber sash and case windows, while the rear has a variety of replacements. The roof is covered with grey slate and features harled coped gablehead stacks at both ends, with one additional stack to the left of center on St Clement's Cottage, which has round cans.

The interior was not inspected in 2001. There is a low harled boundary wall to the principal east elevation, likely dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, with later wrought-iron railings, although it is considered to have little interest.

Local climate

Cathedral Cottage, The Cross, Dunblane 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 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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