Village Hall, Humbie Children's Village is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1990.
Village Hall, Humbie Children's Village
- WRENN ID
- outer-terrace-equinox
- Grade
- B
- 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 461 625
- Coordinates
- 55.8527, -2.8611
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a village hall dating back to approximately 1923. It is a single-story, rectangular structure with later additions including a bell tower and extensions to the east side. The exterior is harled (roughcast) and has a red tile roof. The south elevation has five bays, with a square bell tower projecting from the centre, rising above the roofline. The bell tower’s entrance is below, with a rounded door surround, a memorial panel above and a cornice below a bellcote (small bell tower) with a shallow pyramidal roof. The bellcote has segmental arched openings on each face and a terracotta finial, with a bell still in place. Bipartite (two-light) bays with timber mullions flank the tower, each flanked by pilaster strips. A further doorway is located under a catslide (a low-sloping roof) on the west side, flanked by a window, and with an advanced bay similarly roofed to the outside to the left. Flat-roofed additions form the east side of the building.
A memorial panel commemorates Thomas Rouch of Walkerburn, Peeblesshire, and is dated 1923, suggesting he was the benefactor. The hall is part of the former Humbie Children's Village, which was constructed in 1906 in an Arts and Crafts style. The village was originally built to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities, comprising several cottages, a hall, and a school. It later became a residential care facility, closing in the 1990s and being redeveloped into private housing in 2008. The building currently serves as a dining hall for Algarde Home.
Local climate
Village Hall, 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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