The Elms, Dunbar Road, Haddington is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1977. Villa.

The Elms, Dunbar Road, Haddington

WRENN ID
old-ledge-larch
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 December 1977
Type
Villa
OS grid reference
NT 515 743
Coordinates
55.95928, -2.77695
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Elms is a Jacobethan villa built around 1845, designed in the style of Burn and Bryce. It is two storeys tall and constructed from regularly coursed rubble. The building has an asymmetrical Z-plan layout, featuring single-storey canted bays at the gables. The windows are mullioned, with configurations of two and three lights, and there are dormerhead gablets topped with ball and spike finials. The porch includes an arched doorpiece and a consoled pediment hood.

Local climate

The Elms, Dunbar Road, Haddington 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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