Port Seton House, 126 High Street, Cockenzie is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1977. House. 2 related planning applications.

Port Seton House, 126 High Street, Cockenzie

WRENN ID
young-render-pine
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 December 1977
Type
House
Address
Port Seton House, 126 High Street, Cockenzie, EH32 0DN
OS grid reference
NT 403 758
Coordinates
55.97189, -2.95751
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Port Seton House is an early 19th century, symmetrical and plain two-storey building with six bays, forming a pair of houses. It features a basement and a modern extension at the rear. The rear is constructed of random rubble, while the front is brown harled with painted margins.

The south elevation has a central door for each house, which is plain boarded and has a five-pane fanlight above it. Each door is flanked by a window on either side, and there are three windows on the first floor.

On the north elevation, the west house has three windows on the ground floor, located above a central door and a small basement window in the outer bay, with two windows on the first floor in the outer bays. The east house has one window on the ground floor in the inner bay next to the modern extension, and three windows on the first floor.

Both the east and west elevations feature a tiny attic window in each gable head. The windows are timber sash and case, with twelve panes in the west house and four panes in the east house. The roof is covered in ungraded Welsh slate with plain skews. There are stacks at the gables and centre ridge, along with thackstanes that are harled with plain copes and four plain cans on each.

The boundary wall is made of harl pointed rubble with squared rubble coping, which transitions to ashlar at squared piers topped with domed caps.

Local climate

Port Seton House, 126 High Street, Cockenzie 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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