Humbie Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1990.
Humbie Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muffled-solder-finch
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1990
- OS grid reference
- NT 461 623
- Coordinates
- 55.85175, -2.86245
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Humbie Cottage is a single-storey cottage, likely designed by J H Cooper after 1906, with later additions. It is constructed with harled walls and a red tile roof. The west-facing elevation has three bays: a doorway to the outer right, a casement window in the centre, and a gabled bay to the left with a window. A garage extension adjoins the north side, and a gabled wing projects from the south. Further additions have been made to the rear of the property. The main roof is piended, with a stack on one side.
The cottage is part of the former Humbie Children’s Village, built in 1906 in an Arts and Crafts style. The village was originally created to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities, comprising separate cottages, a hall, and a school. It operated as a residential care facility in the later 20th century, closed in the 1990s, and was subsequently redeveloped into private housing in 2008. The statutory address is 1 Shillinghill, formerly "The Cottage."
Local climate
Humbie Cottage 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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