Loretto School General, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Mansion. 1 related planning application.

Loretto School General, Musselburgh

WRENN ID
graven-soffit-plum
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
22 January 1971
Type
Mansion
Address
Loretto School General, Musselburgh, EH21 7RE
OS grid reference
NT 349 729
Coordinates
55.94521, -3.04376
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Loretto School General in Musselburgh is a mid-18th century, two-storey mansion that is harled with raised margins around the doors and windows. The building has a U-shaped plan facing east, featuring semi-octagonal ends topped with semi-prismatic slate roofs. There is a three-storey, flat-roofed extension, slightly off-centre, which was added around 1870. The south front was remodeled in the early 19th century and includes a pediment with a chimney stack at the centre and urns at each end. This façade also features a semi-elliptical Roman Doric porch supported by two pairs of columns, along with semi-elliptical weathering and remnants of a first-floor verandah above.

Local climate

Loretto School General, Musselburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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