Recreation Hall, East Fortune Hospital is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 June 1991. Recreation hall.

Recreation Hall, East Fortune Hospital

WRENN ID
third-transept-moth
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
19 June 1991
Type
Recreation hall
OS grid reference
NT 550 793
Coordinates
56.0048, -2.72304
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Recreation Hall at East Fortune Hospital, built around 1916, is a tall single-storey, six-bay rectangular-plan former lecture hall that was part of the former Royal Naval Airship Station. It features a concrete plinth with an integral drainage channel and a brick base course. The exterior is clad in white-painted corrugated iron, with timber eaves and barge-boards. There is a door located in a lean-to porch on the south end elevation. A square-plan boiler house is attached to the north elevation of the hall, with its roof extending to form a canopy, and it is predominantly covered with horizontal timber boarding. The south elevation, which is the principal elevation, has a central lean-to porch with an entrance on the east return and a wider lean-to to the left of the porch.

The building has six-pane metal framed windows with top-hung hoppers. The roof is pitched and covered in red-painted corrugated iron, while the boiler house has a mono-pitched roof with ridge ventilators.

Inside, as seen in 2010, there is painted vertical timber boarding lining the ancillary room.

Local climate

Recreation Hall, East Fortune Hospital 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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