Spylaw Cottage, Drem is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1977.
Spylaw Cottage, Drem
- WRENN ID
- vast-footing-elder
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1977
- OS grid reference
- NT 510 794
- Coordinates
- 56.00543, -2.78652
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Spylaw Cottage is a mid-19th century, single-story lodge built on a T-plan. The exterior is of squared and coursed ashlar with grey ashlar margins. The main entrance faces east and features a decorative hinge bracket. A wooden bipartite window is set into the advanced gable to the left, with a single light to the right. The north gable incorporates a bipartite window and a later, flat-roofed, harled extension at the angle. The south gable is blank. The windows are sash and case with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is grey slated with deeply overhanging eaves, an ashlar stack situated to the south, and harled stacks to the extension.
Local climate
Spylaw Cottage, Drem receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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