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
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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