7 Little Spott Cottages, Little Spott is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1990. 1 related planning application.
7 Little Spott Cottages, Little Spott
- WRENN ID
- ghost-forge-autumn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1990
- Address
- 7 Little Spott Cottages, Little Spott, EH42 1RH
- OS grid reference
- NT 656 748
- Coordinates
- 55.96552, -2.55165
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
6 Little Spott Cottages, built around 1870, is a symmetrical row of six single-storey and attic farm cottages. The cottages are constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone, featuring cream ashlar dressings, chamfered arrises at the openings, and hoodmoulds above the windows.
On the north elevation, there is a central pend flanked by doorways, with eaves that extend over three bays in a porch form. This area is enhanced with decorative timber brackets, columns, bargeboarding, and balustrades. Each side has two bays with bipartite windows at ground level and gabled attic dormers above. The penultimate bays on each side have paired porches, detailed similarly, with doorways behind them. The outer bays also feature bipartite windows at ground level and gabled attic dormers.
The south elevation is largely blank, with later brick porch additions, and there is a further modern addition at No 2. The windows are fitted with plate glass and 4-pane glazing patterns in sash and case style, with three Velux replacement windows at No 2. The doors have small-pane upper panels and plate glass fanlights. The roofs are covered with red fish-scale tiles, complemented by decorative terracotta ridge tiles and finials. The cottages also feature decorative timber bargeboards and eaves brackets, along with mutual gable and gable end stacks.
Local climate
7 Little Spott Cottages, Little Spott 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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