West Lodge, Whittingehame House is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. Gate lodge. 1 related planning application.
West Lodge, Whittingehame House
- WRENN ID
- low-bailey-oak
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1990
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Address
- West Lodge, Whittingehame House, EH41 4QD
- OS grid reference
- NT 590 722
- Coordinates
- 55.94127, -2.65743
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
West Lodge at Whittingehame House is a single-storey gate lodge designed by Sir Robert Smirke around 1820, showcasing Greek classical architecture in an L-plan layout. The building is constructed from Cullalo ashlar and features a cill course, entablature, and a moulded cornice. Its frontages resemble a temple with three bays on each arm, each bay containing tall windows. The north-south arm has a return bay, and there is a porch positioned at the angle, featuring an unfluted Doric column at the southwest angle and a pier at the southeast. The porch includes a vertically paned, fanlit door, with a deep, blind opening balanced at right angles. Above the porch is a blocking course.
To the north, there is a low red sandstone outbuilding. The lodge has sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring coped grouped stacks along the north-south ridge.
The quadrants and gatepiers consist of ashlar with moulded coping and a base course, with square piers at intervals and larger gatepiers, also with moulded coping. A heavy chain is strung between the piers, and there are simple wrought-iron gates.
Local climate
West Lodge, Whittingehame House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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