1 Hopetoun Estate Cottages, Woodend, Hopetoun House is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 18 December 1978.

1 Hopetoun Estate Cottages, Woodend, Hopetoun House

WRENN ID
peeling-dormer-moss
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
West Lothian
Constituency
Bathgate and Linlithgow MP: Kirsteen Sullivan (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
18 December 1978
OS grid reference
NT 087 774
Coordinates
55.9813, -3.46323
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

These are a group of five terraced cottages, likely designed by Hippolyte J Blanc around 1880, situated within the Hopetoun Estate at Woodend, near Hopetoun House. They form a row, with each cottage having three bays. Each cottage features a central door and a distinctive porch with bracketed supports and decorative bargeboards. The windows are arranged in pairs. Chimneys are topped with cornices. The cottages are built of snecked rubble with polished dressings, and have slated roofs. Originally, this was a Free Church Manse. The statutory address is Woodend Hopetoun Estate Cottages (Nos 1-5).

Local climate

1 Hopetoun Estate Cottages, Woodend, 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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