Whittingehame Mains Farmsteading is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. Steading. 2 related planning applications.
Whittingehame Mains Farmsteading
- WRENN ID
- ruined-paling-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1990
- Type
- Steading
- Address
- Whittingehame Mains Farmsteading, EH41 4QA
- OS grid reference
- NT 597 737
- Coordinates
- 55.95466, -2.64693
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Whittingehame Mains Farmsteading, dated 1892, is an improvement steading built as a single structure. It features red sandstone that is squared, snecked, and stugged, with ashlar dressings. The building has crowstepped gables with beaked skewputts, and the roofs are covered with grey and purple slates, as well as pantiles on the southern range and cattle courts. Ridge ventilators are present, and an engine house projects from the northern range at the center.
The eastern range includes a tall depressed-arch keystoned pend in a slightly advanced gabled bay, which has a date panel in the apex. It features decoratively boarded and railed timber gates, with two gabled dormerheads breaking the eaves on each side of the single-storey plants, and a door to the right. There are two-storey bays on the outer right, with a gabled hayloft door at the upper storey center, flanked by windows.
The southern range is symmetrical, containing three machinery doorways with sliding doors, and slightly advanced gabled outer bays. There is a depressed arch entrance in the right gable and a later machinery door in the left gable.
On the northern elevation to the east, there is a cartshed with four bays, featuring a timber lintel and rectangular pillars, along with granary windows above and to the right. The cattle courts include canopied feeding areas supported by cast-iron columns, with awban (cattle tethering-posts) and feeding doors, accessed from the southern range through lugged openings with rounded jambs.
Additionally, there is a circular section yellow brick stalk adorned with a band of grey brick and a moulded neck and coping, located on the northern range by the engine house.
Local climate
Whittingehame Mains Farmsteading receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 11 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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