Garden House, Carlekemp House, Abbotsford Place, North Berwick is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1988. Engine cottage.
Garden House, Carlekemp House, Abbotsford Place, North Berwick
- WRENN ID
- hushed-spandrel-curlew
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1988
- Type
- Engine cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 535 853
- Coordinates
- 56.05881, -2.74783
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Garden House, located at Carlekemp House, Abbotsford Place in North Berwick, was designed by John Kinross, RSA, in 1898. This two-storey building features a rectangular plan and is a gabled engine cottage set on sloping ground, positioned away from Carlekemp amid a plantation. The exterior is constructed of squared and snecked Rattlebag rubble with ashlar dressings, and it has applied timber framing on the jettied first floor. The windows have moulded margins and mullions.
On the west elevation, the entrance is located to the left and features a doorway with an ogival, moulded surround. The centre has a tripartite window, and there is a small light to the right. The first-floor windows have been altered. The north and south gables each have bipartite windows at ground level on the north side, while both gables feature four-light windows with embossed lead panels above, adorned with quatrefoil details. The windows are lead-paned sash and case.
There is a modern porch addition to the left of the east elevation, and the glazing patterns have been altered, along with the first-floor windows on the east and west sides. The building has overhanging eaves and a Westmoreland slate roof, with an added stack and timber barge boarding.
Local climate
Garden House, Carlekemp House, Abbotsford Place, 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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