Wellhead, Eskhill, Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. Gate lodge.

Wellhead, Eskhill, Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk

WRENN ID
eternal-plinth-mist
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 November 1990
Type
Gate lodge
Address
Wellhead, Eskhill, Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk, EH21 7TD
OS grid reference
NT 347 720
Coordinates
55.93677, -3.04533
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Wellhead is a single-storey gate lodge built around 1800, featuring a rectangular plan and a circular tower. There is a modern addition at the rear. The lodge is constructed from squared and snecked sandstone rubble, with heavy pointing on the roadside elevation and harl-pointing on the sides. The tower is finished with ochre-painted harl, while the door and window on the roadside have painted ashlar dressings. A later window facing the drive has a rendered surround, and the window in the tower features droved dressings. The main lodge has a grey slate piend roof, with exposed timber brackets supporting the shallow conical roof of the tower, which is topped with a lead ball finial. The windows have small-pane glazing patterns. There is a rubble retaining wall that is harl pointed and ashlar coped, which includes a pedestrian gateway. The gatepiers are made of rusticated ashlar, corniced, and topped with ball finials.

Local climate

Wellhead, Eskhill, Inveresk Village Road, Inveresk receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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