Ne Cottage, Bonnytoun Cottages is a Grade C listed building in the West Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1992.
Ne Cottage, Bonnytoun Cottages
- WRENN ID
- patient-steel-hawthorn
- 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
- 55.98979, -3.59088
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is a single-story terrace of two labourers' cottages, originally built as a group of four in 1907, situated within a U-shaped plan with rear service extensions. They are constructed in an Arts and Crafts style. The walls are harled with a grid pattern of timber framing, incorporating single, bipartite, and tripartite windows. The cottages feature bargeboarded doors.
The west-facing (entrance) elevation has six recessed bays, with the four central bays slightly advanced. Two tripartite windows are centrally placed, alongside a single window to the right and left. Doors are located on the inner returns. Three advanced bays form wings flanking the central section, with the left-hand wing displaying timber framing inscribed with the initials "HMC 1907". Each wing has a bipartite window flanked by single windows, and a door in the re-entrant angles.
The side elevations consist of three bays, showcasing a small window centrally placed, flanked by a bipartite window on either side.
The rear elevation features an advanced bay centrally placed, with a door to the right and a window to the left. Three recessed bays flank this, each containing a small central window bordered by bipartite windows. Advanced service blocks are situated at the outer bays, alongside modern flat-roofed extensions.
The windows are timber multi-pane casements, nearly flush with the wall. The roof is covered in grey/green slate, with jerkin-headed pavilions and red ridge tiles, and rendered stacks.
The initials "HMC" refer to Henry Moubray Cadell of Grange, who commissioned the cottages on his estate. A note regarding the construction cost – $740 – is also a feature.
Local climate
Ne 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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