Park Cottage, Humbie Children's Village is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1990.
Park Cottage, Humbie Children's Village
- WRENN ID
- woven-kitchen-briar
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1990
- OS grid reference
- NT 461 624
- Coordinates
- 55.8521, -2.86211
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Park Cottage is a single-storey and attic cottage, probably designed by J H Cooper before 1906, and originally part of the Humbie Children’s Village. The village, built in an Arts and Crafts style, was intended to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities and later became a residential care facility before its closure and redevelopment into private housing in 2008.
The cottage is rectangular in plan with a catslide roof to a rear porch. It is harled with a red tile roof and features projecting end stacks. The west elevation presents a projecting, flat-roofed glazed porch, canted at the left centre. To the right corner is a chamfered bay. A projecting window is located at ground level to the left, with a jettied gablehead above and an attic window within the gable. A fire escape has been added to the south side, the doorway likely formed from a former window. The cottage is part of a group listing including numbers 4-6, 8-14.
Local climate
Park Cottage, Humbie Children's Village 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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