56, 58 High Street, Dunbar is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Tenement. 3 related planning applications.
56, 58 High Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- pitched-cloister-azure
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Tenement
- Address
- 56, 58 High Street, Dunbar, EH42 1JH
- OS grid reference
- NT 679 788
- Coordinates
- 56.00161, -2.51603
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
56 and 58 High Street in Dunbar is a three-storey, four-bay tenement building dated 1743, featuring shops on the ground floor. The exterior is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar stone. The central entrance has a segmentally arched shape and is fitted with an iron gate. The building has a regular arrangement of windows, each with a 12-pane glazing pattern. Above the central bays, there is a wallhead gable that includes bulls-eye windows and an apex stack. The roof has plain skews and curved skewputts, and it is covered with slate.
At the rear, there is a stone turnpike stair that projects slightly at the center, accompanied by stepped narrow small-pane lights. A date stone is located on the doorway to the left. The roof is swept into the main eaves, and there is a swept dormer above the right side. Additionally, there are single-storey outbuildings with pantiled roofs adjoining both the north and south sides of the main building.
Local climate
56, 58 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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