Laundry, Winton Castle, Pencaitland is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Cottage.

Laundry, Winton Castle, Pencaitland

WRENN ID
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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 May 1991
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 438 696
Coordinates
55.91684, -2.8994
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Laundry at Winton Castle in Pencaitland was designed by Gilbert Francis Molyneux Ogilvy in 1928. It is an L-plan cottage that features a tall single-storey laundry section and a two-storey cottage with a first floor that breaks the eaves. The building is constructed from stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone rubble, with ashlar dressings.

The laundry wing is located to the north and has two tall windows on the west elevation, which are closely flanked by doorways on either side. There is a chamfered corner to the stair block, which is set in the re-entrant angle with the two-storey wing. This stair block has three square windows and a cavetto cornice.

The two-storey cottage includes a Gibbs-style surround to the doorway on the west gable, with an armorial panel of the Ogilvy family positioned above it, along with two attic windows. The south elevation features two closely grouped bays at the center, with windows on the ground floor and breaking eaves above in gabled dormerheads. There is a later window that has been inserted to the outer left at ground level.

The sash and case windows exhibit four different glazing patterns, including 12-pane and 18-pane configurations. The building also features crowsteps and beak skewputts, a polygonal roof on the stair block, and a grey slate roof with coping on the chimneystacks.

Local climate

Laundry, Winton Castle, Pencaitland receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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