Sw Cottage, Bonnytoun Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992.
Sw Cottage, Bonnytoun Cottages
- WRENN ID
- silver-passage-tide
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lothian
- Constituency
- Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1992
- OS grid reference
- NT 008 785
- Coordinates
- 55.98963, -3.59091
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Sw Cottage is part of a group of two (originally four) labourers’ cottages built in 1907 in the Arts and Crafts style. The terrace is arranged in a U-shape, with service areas at the rear. The cottages are harled with a grid pattern of timber framing, incorporating single, bipartite, and tripartite windows. They have bargeboarded and boarded front doors.
The west-facing elevation has six recessed bays, with the four central bays slightly projecting. Two tripartite windows are centrally placed, with single windows to the right and left. There are doors on the inner returns. Three projecting bays, one on each wing, flank the central section; the left wing’s timber framing is inscribed with “HMC 1907”. Each projecting bay has a bipartite window flanked by single windows, and doors are located in the re-entrant angles.
The side elevations have three bays, each with a small window to the centre, flanked by bipartite windows.
The rear elevation features a projecting bay in the centre, with a door to the right and a window to the left. Three recessed bays flank this central section, each with a small window to the centre, flanked by bipartite windows. Advanced service blocks are located at the outer bays, with modern flat-roofed extensions added abutting these.
The windows are timber, multi-pane casements, almost flush with the wall. The roof is grey/green slate, with jerkin-headed pavilions and red ridge tiles. Rendered stacks are present.
The initials "HMC" refer to Henry Moubray Cadell of Grange, who commissioned the cottages on his estate. The design includes a note of the building cost - $740.
Local climate
Sw Cottage, Bonnytoun Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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