Harmony Cottage, Humbie Children's Village is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1990. 1 related planning application.

Harmony Cottage, Humbie Children's Village

WRENN ID
seventh-vestry-coral
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 June 1990
Address
Harmony Cottage, Humbie Children's Village, EH36 5PX
OS grid reference
NT 461 625
Coordinates
55.85279, -2.86177
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Harmony Cottage is a single-story and attic cottage, likely designed by J H Cooper before 1906, situated within the former Humbie Children’s Village. The rectangular cottage is part of a group built in 1906 in an Arts and Crafts style to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities. Later, it served as a residential care facility, before closing in the 1990s and subsequent redevelopment into private housing in 2008.

The cottage is harled (roughcast) externally, with a red tile roof. The west-facing elevation has three bays, with a flat-roofed porch centrally positioned. A tripartite window is located to the left, and a single window is to the right. A gabled porch is situated to the left of the north-facing elevation. A stack projecting from the rear roof pitch indicates a chimney position. A flat-roofed dormer window, with timber construction and leaded sides, is visible on the west side.

Local climate

Harmony Cottage, Humbie Children's Village 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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