Merrileas Cottage, High Street, Aberlady is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993. 1 related planning application.

Merrileas Cottage, High Street, Aberlady

WRENN ID
standing-solder-root
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 January 1993
Address
Merrileas Cottage, High Street, Aberlady, EH32 0RE
OS grid reference
NT 464 799
Coordinates
56.00905, -2.86085
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Merrileas Cottage is a late 18th century cottage, likely originally comprising two rooms. It is constructed of whitewashed, squared and stugged rubble with painted, droved ashlar margins. The facade has five asymmetrical bays, with a near-contemporary single bay addition. A later, part-glazed wooden porch fronts the central door, with two windows to the left and two widely spaced windows to the right, a further single bay addition extending beyond the skew. The windows are 12-pane sash and case. Other features include ashlar coped skews, renewed red pantiles with a tile eaves easing course, and coped stacks. A low garden retaining wall runs along the Main Street, with modern railings. An Ordnance Survey map from 1854 depicts the property.

Local climate

Merrileas Cottage, High Street, Aberlady 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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