Building To Rear, 72 High Street, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1988. House.
Building To Rear, 72 High Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- pitched-loft-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1988
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 678 788
- Coordinates
- 56.00181, -2.51648
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The building at the rear of 72 High Street in Dunbar is an early 18th-century, two-storey house with an oblong plan. It is constructed of red sandstone rubble that has been severely pointed. The building is adjacent to a rigg wall to the south, which is shared with a similar house that is now in ruins in the adjoining close.
On the east elevation, there is a dog-leg sandstone forestair, which is abutted by the projecting gable of the High Street building. The first floor features windows to the south, and there is a doorway with a derelict timber porch remaining.
The north elevation includes a low doorway leading under the forestair on the east side, and a taller ground floor doorway with a window above it on the west side.
On the west elevation, there are two deep-set ground floor windows and first floor windows to the south. The building has small-pane sash windows with timber lintels, a piended pantiled roof, and a mutual gable stack.
Local climate
Building To Rear, 72 High Street, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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