Whim Lodge And The Bents, Hill Road, Gullane is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1988. Villa. 8 related planning applications.
Whim Lodge And The Bents, Hill Road, Gullane
- WRENN ID
- tattered-mullion-falcon
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1988
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Whim Lodge And The Bents, Hill Road, Gullane, EH31 2BE
- OS grid reference
- NT 479 829
- Coordinates
- 56.03685, -2.83759
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Whim Lodge and The Bents is a double villa built around 1900, featuring two storeys and a symmetrical design. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings and a base course.
On the east and west elevations, there are roll-moulded, lugged architraves around the doors, which have segmental pediments. The southern elevation includes two grouped narrow windows below and a single narrow window to the north, with a narrow first-floor window above that breaks the eaves in an ashlar gablet head. There is a full-height rectangular projection on the outer northern bay, which has a flat roof and three lights at the front.
The southern elevation has an M-gable design with two mirrored rectangular projecting windows on the ground floor, two first-floor windows on each gable, and small windows in the gable heads. The northern elevation also features an M-gable with a flat-roofed, single-storey projection at the centre, where doorways are located in the re-entrant angles, and single first-floor windows grouped at the centre.
The villa has 8 and 12-pane glazing in sash and case windows, timber eaves brackets, and barge-boarded gables. The chimney stacks are harled with ashlar dressings, and the roof is covered with turquoise slates.
Inside, there are some notable details, including pine panelling and decorative plasterwork.
Local climate
Whim Lodge And The Bents, Hill Road, Gullane 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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