'Rose Cottage', Torphichen is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 June 1980. House. 3 related planning applications.

'Rose Cottage', Torphichen

WRENN ID
stark-nave-kestrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 June 1980
Type
House
Address
'Rose Cottage', Torphichen, EH48 4NF
OS grid reference
NS 967 724
Coordinates
55.93381, -3.65505
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Rose Cottage is a single-storey building dating from around 1800. It features two windows and a centrally located door with an architrave. The exterior is constructed from squared rubble with flush margins. The roof is slated and includes skews and coped end stacks, along with original sash windows. To the left, there is a lower smithy wing that is also built from rubble and slated, complete with a roof-light.

Local climate

'Rose Cottage', Torphichen sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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