Summerfield Lodge, High Street, Dunbar is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1988. 1 related planning application.
Summerfield Lodge, High Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- salt-beam-sedge
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1988
- Address
- Summerfield Lodge, High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1NW
- OS grid reference
- NT 667 786
- Coordinates
- 55.9998, -2.53506
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Summerfield is a mid to later 19th century villa with two storeys and a basement, featuring a square plan. The eastern and southern elevations are constructed from squared red rubble, while the northern and western elevations are finished in ashlar with ashlar dressings. The roof is slate, and there are obliquely set, linked diamond stacks on the advanced chimney breasts at the northern and southern fronts, adorned with decorative finials. The main frontage has plate glass sashes, while smaller panes are used elsewhere.
The western entrance front has three bays, with a wide gabled central porch that features a bolection moulding door surround and a hoodmould above a stepping panel. Above the porch, there is a hoodmoulded single window over small windows in the gabled attic. The wider, shallow advanced flanking bays have canted windows on both the ground and first floors, with blind slits and hoodmoulds in the flanking gable heads and a central pediment. The ground and first floors also have three-light, canted bays with a blocking course, and a balcony supported on stone volutes hugs the canted bays and corners, featuring a decorative wrought-iron balustrade. A stone flight of steps bridges the basement recess.
The eastern elevation has three bays, with a projecting two-light window alteration on the left side of the ground floor. It features skewputted, finialled gablet heads with blind slits. The western and southern fronts have smaller recessed eastern gables and a larger advanced gable on the western side. There are false windows on the chimney breasts of the northern side, with random windows in between. The entrance is flanked by a rubble wall and square, capped ashlar piers that have been reset.
A lodge, contemporary with the house, is a single-storey structure with a rectangular plan. It is built from snecked squared rubble with stugged ashlar dressings and a base course, and has ashlar elevations on the east, north, and west sides. The slate roof features gabletted skews and paired octagonal flues on the gable stacks, with a small pane glazing pattern.
The northern entrance front of the lodge has an advanced gabled doorway with a strip fanlight and a panel above. To the left, there is a two-light window, and to the right, a single light window. It is finished with a low parapet wall and decorative wrought-iron railings. The rear southeast elevation has four bays with skewputted gablet heads over windows that break the eaves, featuring narrow arch slits in each bay. There is a modern dormer addition on the eastern side, while the eastern elevation is blank with an advanced chimney breast, mirrored on the western side with flanking windows.
Local climate
Summerfield Lodge, High Street, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 10 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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