Empire Saleroom, 44 High Street, Dunbar is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Empire Saleroom, 44 High Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- dusted-chapel-yarrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Empire Saleroom, 44 High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1JH
- OS grid reference
- NT 679 788
- Coordinates
- 56.00142, -2.5158
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Empire Saleroom, located at 44 High Street in Dunbar, is a building dating from the late 18th to early 19th century, with some later alterations. It is a two-storey, four-bay house featuring rendered walls, painted ashlar quoins, and window surrounds. The building has plate glass sash windows.
An earlier 19th century porch is situated at the second left bay, supported by square piers that also function as gate piers. This porch includes an entablature and a blocking course. The roof is slate, with harled gable head stacks, and there is a modern dormer addition at the rear.
The property is topped with a low parapet wall that is adorned with decorative iron railing and a gate.
Local climate
Empire Saleroom, 44 High Street, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 3 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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