1 Saltoun Cottages, Main Street, East Saltoun is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. 1 related planning application.

1 Saltoun Cottages, Main Street, East Saltoun

WRENN ID
lesser-chimney-blackthorn
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 May 1991
Address
1 Saltoun Cottages, Main Street, East Saltoun, EH34 5DZ
OS grid reference
NT 475 678
Coordinates
55.90097, -2.84107
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

2 Saltoun Cottages is an early 19th-century L-plan single-storey terrace that was restored in 1892. Originally consisting of four cottages, it steps up along Main Street. The building is constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings and features a 4-pane glazing pattern in the sash and case windows. The bipartite windows have timber mullions. The roof is covered with red pantiles and has slate eaves easing courses, along with ashlar coped skews and gable end stacks, and beak skewputts.

On the west elevation, there are three identical three-bay cottages facing the roadside. Each cottage has a central doorway framed by a classical doorpiece that breaks the eaves, featuring a blocking course and a tablet; the door is set within a recessed segmental panel. To the left of each doorway is a bipartite window (enlarged in 1892), and to the right is a single window. The cottage at 1 Main Street, to the north, was formerly a separate building and is now adjoined at right angles. It has a gable end facing west, which is slightly advanced, and features a bipartite window and a shield in the gablehead, initialled JF. This cottage also has three bays, each with a window.

Local climate

1 Saltoun Cottages, Main Street, East Saltoun receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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