Battery, Lamer Island, Dunbar Harbour is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Military structure. 2 related planning applications.
Battery, Lamer Island, Dunbar Harbour
- WRENN ID
- quiet-panel-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Military structure
- OS grid reference
- NT 681 793
- Coordinates
- 56.006, -2.51294
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building is a battery located on Lamer Island in Dunbar Harbour, designed by Andrew Fraser in 1781. It features a D-plan bastion that is rounded on the northwest coastal side, with a small projection at the southern corner. The structure is constructed from large squared sandstone rubble laid in courses, with some remaining ovolo coping. There is a central arched entrance on the southwest side, which includes alternating long and short voussoirs. The battery also has 16 pierced embrasure ornament openings.
Inside, there is a gun platform at a higher level of the yard, supported by rubble walling from the ramp areas. The southeast corner contains a barrel-vaulted basement range. Additionally, there was a former two-storey house at the southern corner, which is now a shell; two embrasures have been altered to serve as windows.
Local climate
Battery, Lamer Island, Dunbar Harbour 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 — 2 applications
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