1 Moss Cottage is a Grade B listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1971.

1 Moss Cottage

WRENN ID
ragged-hinge-umber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Livingston MP: Gregor Poynton (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 048 693
Coordinates
55.90784, -3.52355
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an 18th century cottage, one of three forming a traditional vernacular grouping. The cottage is single-storey and built of rubble. It has a gabled form with a pantiled roof and small lying-pane windows. A small gabled addition is located at the southern end. The statutory address for this group of cottages is Moss Houses.

Local climate

1 Moss Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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