Croft House, 3 Delisle Street, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. House.
Croft House, 3 Delisle Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- kindled-pinnacle-hemlock
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 677 789
- Coordinates
- 56.0021, -2.51823
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Croft House, located at 3 Delisle Street in Dunbar, dates from around 1788 and is a symmetrical two-storey, five-bay classical house. It features recessed single-storey side blocks, with a two-bay roof to the east and a flat roof to the west. There is a projecting extension at the rear. The building is constructed from droved red sandstone ashlar, with rubble sides and rear that have ashlar dressings.
The entrance front has an Ionic doorpiece, a panelled door, and a decorative fanlight, all accessed by a flight of steps with a wrought-iron balustrade. The ground floor is rusticated, and the windows have voussoired lintels. Above the ground floor, there is a raised band course with a recessed centre, and a cill course at the first floor, which continues over the block to the east. The cornice features a blocking course and a raised, fluted centre block. The ground floor windows have 12-pane glazing, while the upper floor features plate glass sashes. The roof is piended slate with ashlar end stacks.
On the east block, there is a door to the left and a window to the right, with a steep pitched slate gable that includes a piended dormer at the north rear. The west block has a blind sash, and there is a continuous wall to the left with a segmental arched entrance.
Local climate
Croft House, 3 Delisle Street, Dunbar 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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