Grieve's Cottage, Peaston is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 December 2000. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Grieve's Cottage, Peaston

WRENN ID
woven-corner-ebony
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
6 December 2000
Type
Cottage
Address
Grieve's Cottage, Peaston, EH35 5NL
OS grid reference
NT 427 652
Coordinates
55.87713, -2.91653
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Grieve's Cottage is an early 19th-century, single-storey, three-bay farm cottage located at a bend in the road, running from northwest to southeast. The building is constructed of rubble with squared dressings. The northeast elevation features a central door flanked by windows, while the gable ends are blank. At the rear, there is a harled lean-to addition. The cottage has multi-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows, with brick coped skews and stacks, and is topped with red tiles.

Local climate

Grieve's Cottage, Peaston 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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