Windmill, Knockenhair, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 July 1986. House, windmill, lodge.
Windmill, Knockenhair, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- roaming-pedestal-hyssop
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1986
- Type
- House, windmill, lodge
- OS grid reference
- NT 669 789
- Coordinates
- 56.00235, -2.5309
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Windmill at Knockenhair, Dunbar, was designed by R Weir Schultz between 1907 and 1910 and features an Arts and Crafts butterfly plan. The building is harled with ashlar doorways and a porch, topped with slate roofs and a variety of sash windows with small-pane glazing.
The entrance front has an advanced bay that is off-centre to the west, featuring an ogee roof. To the left, there is a two-bay pilastered porch in a re-entrant angle. To the east, there are two later doors with an architrave above, and two flat-roofed dormers.
On the north rear side, there is a three-storey off-centre canted bay that is corbelled out above the eaves level, also with an ogee roof. This side has random openings and two flat-roofed dormers.
The west side gable features a two-canted bay with a slated roof and an advanced chimney stack to the north. The east side gable has an advanced stack to the north and windows to the south, along with a single-storey flat-roofed block to the east that links with the windmill.
The interiors have been significantly altered due to the division of the house, with carpentry and joinery work completed by R McArthur and Sons of East Linton and Dunbar.
The windmill itself dates back to the 18th century and is constructed of harled sandstone rubble, topped with a slated cone roof. It has a projecting base with a door to the east and narrow windows located under the eaves. The interior has been converted for habitation.
The lodge, also designed by R Weir Schultz between 1907 and 1910, is a single-storey building with a mansard attic addition to the north. It has a rectangular plan with an extension to the north, is harled, and features a slate piended and mansard roof. The lodge has mainly sash windows with small-pane glazing, a ridge stack, and an entrance through a timber porch that is recessed into the southwest corner.
Local climate
Windmill, Knockenhair, 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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