Seton West Mains is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1992. Farmhouse.
Seton West Mains
- WRENN ID
- twisted-basalt-sunrise
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1992
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NT 406 747
- Coordinates
- 55.96165, -2.95247
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Seton West Mains is a later 19th-century farmhouse that stands two stories tall and features three bays, along with a lower two-story service wing connected at the southeast corner to a farm steading. The building is constructed from squared and tooled grey sandstone, accented with ashlar dressings, a base, and a band course, as well as raised quoins.
On the northeast elevation, the three symmetrical bays are grouped towards the center, featuring an ashlar classical porch with pilasters and a cornice. The porch includes a panelled door and narrow windows on the returns. Flanking the porch are stone mullioned tripartite windows with bracketed cills, and there is a window in each bay on the first floor.
The southeast elevation has a stair window at the center, with a small bathroom window above and a pantry light below. Each outer bay has a window on both floors, with a bipartite window in the outer right bay at ground level. A lean-to greenhouse addition is located at the center.
The southwest elevation is two bays wide, with a window in each bay on both floors.
The service wing, attached to the east elevation on the south side, has two bays on the north side with a window on each floor, featuring pedimented dormerheads that break the eaves on the first floor. The rear of the service wing is blank.
The farmhouse features plate glass glazing in sash and case windows, rope-moulded cast-iron gutters with decorative brackets, and corniced ashlar stacks. The roofs are covered with grey slate and have a piend design.
Surrounding the property are rubble walls that enclose the garden area adjacent to the steading to the south of the farmhouse, with a terraced lawn to the north.
Local climate
Seton West Mains receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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