Fountainhead is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993.
Fountainhead
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-ledge-root
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1993
- OS grid reference
- NT 466 770
- Coordinates
- 55.98348, -2.85596
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fountainhead is a late 19th-century pumphouse built over an underground reservoir. It is constructed of squared and snecked, stugged grey ashlar. A door is located in each gable end, with a semi-circular, louvred opening above. A brick porch has been added to the south side. Four narrow slit openings are set into each side elevation. The roof is covered with red pantiles, and the gables have ashlar coped skews and die and ball finials. The building occupies a site with earlier historical significance, as noted by Forrest. It appears on the Ordnance Survey map of Haddingtonshire from 1892 and is also depicted on W. Forrest’s Map of Haddingtonshire from 1799.
Local climate
Fountainhead 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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