Thatched Cottage, Hopetoun House is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 1980.

Thatched Cottage, Hopetoun House

WRENN ID
spare-keep-cream
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 June 1980
OS grid reference
NT 094 786
Coordinates
55.99182, -3.45293
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is probably an 18th-century single-storey, two-bay cottage with a lean-to addition at the east end. The cottage has rubble walls and a reed-thatched roof, which has a decorative ridge and is piended at the west end. It features round-arched windows.

The building is notable as one of a small number of traditional buildings in Scotland that still have a thatched roof. A 2016 survey by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings found only around 200 such buildings remaining, mainly in small rural communities. These thatched buildings provide important insight into traditional building techniques, materials, and a former way of life. The cottage is also known as Obelisk Cottage.

Local climate

Thatched Cottage, Hopetoun House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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