School, John Knox Road, Longniddry is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993. School.
School, John Knox Road, Longniddry
- WRENN ID
- solitary-moulding-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1993
- Type
- School
- OS grid reference
- NT 443 763
- Coordinates
- 55.9766, -2.89263
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a school located on John Knox Road in Longniddry, dating from around 1905. It is a long, single-storey structure featuring Classical details. The design is symmetrical, with a central three-bay gable that has pilasters and a pediment, flanked by five-bay wings that lead to three-bay advanced pavilions at either end. The exterior is constructed of stugged, coursed ashlar, with squared and snecked stone on the sides and rear, and polished ashlar dressings. Notable features include a battered base course, a moulded cill course, and an eaves course. The windows are bipartite with stone mullions, and some break the eaves in consoled pediments.
On the south elevation, the central, advanced three-bay gable is subdivided by pilasters and features a round-arched, tripartite main entrance with a six-panelled door, flanked by round-headed bipartite windows, all adorned with radiating fanlights. There is a frieze and cornice, and the pediment contains a blank plaque flanked by pilasters. A clock-tower cupola sits on the roof ridge behind, made of timber and lead, with an ogee roof and weathervane. The slightly lower wings on either side have alternate windows designed as pedimented bipartites. A flat-roofed porch connects to the outer bays of the pavilions, designated for boys and girls, featuring round-arched windows at the front and doors on the return.
The east and west elevations show a single pedimented bay for the pavilions and a three-bay, recessed main block with a central pedimented bay. A two-storey hall projects to the north, featuring tall round-arched windows. At the rear, there are modern harled classroom blocks. The windows are sash and case, with a glazing pattern of 12 and 8 panes. The roof is covered with Westmorland slates, featuring piended and platformed sections, with swept eaves and corniced ashlar stacks.
Local climate
School, John Knox Road, Longniddry receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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