101, 103 High Street is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 September 2008. Tenement, butcher shop. 1 related planning application.
101, 103 High Street
- WRENN ID
- peeling-gable-bracken
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 September 2008
- Type
- Tenement, butcher shop
- Address
- 101, 103 High Street, EH42 1ER
- OS grid reference
- NT 679 789
- Coordinates
- 56.0026, -2.51601
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
101 and 103 High Street is an early 20th century, three-storey and attic tenement and former butcher shop. It features a distinctive shaped dormer gable front and is constructed from snecked red sandstone with a painted masonry shopfront. The building has red sandstone ashlar dressings and long and short quoins, along with a moulded string course at the first and second floors. The left side has bi-partite mullioned windows on the first, second, and attic floors.
The shop front includes cast-iron columns and a large plate glass shop window in the center, topped with transom lights. To the left, there is a door leading to the tenement stair, and to the right, a recessed pedimented doorway for the shop, both featuring rectangular small pane fanlights above. The recessed shop doorway has a panelled soffit with a geometric design, and a plain stallriser in the center with a moulded cill above. The channelled cast-iron columns flanking the window have elongated decorative capitals. A painted fascia board with a moulded cornice conceals integrated roller shutters. At the attic level, there is a decorative foliate panel between the windows, with a mock arrow slit in the gable apex.
The shop front predominantly uses plate glass, while the other windows are timber sash and case with four panes over plate glass. The building has a mansard roof with raised ashlar skews and grey slates, along with corniced ridge stacks and modern clay cans. The prominent cast-iron rainwater goods are integrated with the stonework at the first floor and feature large decorated hoppers at the second floor.
Inside, there is a tiled lobby with encaustic and geometric tiles leading into a single large room on the ground floor. The interior features a faience tiled scheme with brown moulded tiles for the skirting, a row of deep blue tiles in the middle, and another row of blue tiles beneath the cornice. Some decorative floreate tiles are present throughout. The ceiling has a deep dentilled cornice with a foliate entablature, and paired I beams span the ceiling to the rear, with an original meat hook still in place. There is also an original wallsafe located at the rear.
Local climate
101, 103 High Street 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 — 1 application
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