Gateway, Danskine Lodge is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.
Gateway, Danskine Lodge
- WRENN ID
- fallow-porch-kestrel
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 565 673
- Coordinates
- 55.89745, -2.69563
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The gateway, probably designed by James Smith and Alexander McGill in the early 18th century, originally served as the east entrance to Yester House. It is constructed of square, channelled ashlar, with cornices and stepped caps to the gatepiers, each topped with ball finials. An outstanding wrought-iron overthrow, featuring a coronet, is supported by railed panels at the piers. In the 19th century, smaller, pyramid-capped ashlar piers were added to create flanking pedestrian gates. The stepped capping and small ball finials may have replaced earlier features and appear somewhat imbalanced. The north gateway was designed later by James Adam. A later 19th-century lodge situated near the gateway is not included in the current listing.
Local climate
Gateway, Danskine Lodge receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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