Windygates Road Cottage, Marly Knowe, Windygates Road, North Berwick is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. Cottage.

Windygates Road Cottage, Marly Knowe, Windygates Road, North Berwick

WRENN ID
twisted-doorway-acorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 May 1988
Type
Cottage
Address
Windygates Road Cottage, Marly Knowe, Windygates Road, North Berwick, EH39 4QP
OS grid reference
NT 546 847
Coordinates
56.05334, -2.7296
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Windygates Road Cottage, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1902, is a two-storey L-plan cottage with a first floor that breaks the eaves. The exterior is harled with a rubble base course and features raised cills.

On the northeast elevation, there is a broad gable with a half-piended roof, which includes a wide tripartite window at ground level and a smaller window above. An advanced gabled porch was added in 1972, and there is a boundary wall extending west at a right angle.

The west gable has a half-piended roof that sweeps lower to the left, with the entrance located in a recessed bay to the left of the north wing.

The south elevation has irregular openings at ground level, with an off-centre doorway.

The cottage features two bell-cast piended dormers, small-pane casement windows, and a slate roof. There is a harled roof stack by the re-entrant angle and diminutive boat-shaped ventilator mock dormers on the north side.

Local climate

Windygates Road Cottage, Marly Knowe, Windygates Road, North Berwick receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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