Cottages, Fountainhall is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991.
Cottages, Fountainhall
- WRENN ID
- sharp-pier-shade
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1991
- OS grid reference
- NT 425 676
- Coordinates
- 55.89839, -2.92048
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
These cottages at Fountainhall likely date from the early to mid 18th century, though they may be older. Originally, there were probably four separate cottages, but they have now been combined into one. The building is constructed from rubble sandstone with harl pointing and features droved ashlar dressings, while the window surrounds are rendered in cement. The remaining door is off-centre and is flanked by windows, some of which were created from former doorways that have been blocked. The glazing patterns are from a later period. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with pantiles, featuring ashlar coped skews with beak skewputts. At the eastern end, there is one original chimney stack, along with two brick ridge stacks.
Local climate
Cottages, Fountainhall 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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