Chesterhill House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.

Chesterhill House

WRENN ID
over-paling-evening
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
House
Address
Chesterhill House, EH36 5PL
OS grid reference
NT 456 614
Coordinates
55.84298, -2.86975
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Chesterhill House is a classically detailed house from the mid to late 18th century, featuring two storeys and an attic. The house was almost doubled in size in the early 19th century by an addition at the rear, and there is a modern single-storey service block in an L-plan layout. The exterior is constructed of rubble with painted ashlar dressings and white painted harling.

The west elevation is symmetrical with five bays. At the centre, there is a corniced doorway with a keystone and rounded corners on the lintel, along with a decorative fanlight. Each flanking bay at the ground floor has a window, as do all bays at the first floor under the eaves, with rusticated quoins. There are two 20th-century gabled bipartite dormers.

The east elevation features a later addition with irregular openings, a shouldered wallhead stack, and lean-to service buildings at right angles to the left.

On the south elevation, a French door has been inserted to the right of the original house, with a first-floor window above it. The later block is slightly recessed, featuring a window and a modern conservatory at ground level, and a bipartite window at the first floor along with an attic window at the centre. The service block has a piend roof with slate-hung dormers and later alterations. The sash and case windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern, with ashlar coped skews and moulded coping and dressings on the end stacks. The roof is covered with grey slates.

The property also includes rubble retaining walls with semi-circular coping, two sets of quadrants made from the same materials, and square, coped gatepiers in squared rubble, along with simple wrought-iron gates.

Local climate

Chesterhill House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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