Ravelston, Humbie Children's Village is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1990.
Ravelston, Humbie Children's Village
- WRENN ID
- muted-landing-oak
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1990
- OS grid reference
- NT 461 624
- Coordinates
- 55.85242, -2.86162
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ravelston, also formerly known as 3 Shillinhill, is a single-storey and attic cottage likely designed by J H Cooper before 1906. It is part of the former Humbie Children's Village, constructed in 1906 in an Arts and Crafts style to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities. The village included cottages, a hall, and a school, later becoming a residential care facility that closed in the 1990s before undergoing redevelopment into private housing in 2008.
The cottage is harled with a red tile roof. The south elevation features a projecting porch encompassing the southeast corner, with outbuildings extending from the east elevation. A projecting, angled window is located at the southwest corner. A further doorway is situated on the east elevation, and a fire escape leads to the attic within the north gable. The roof has flat sections with dormers facing east and west.
References: C McWilliam, Buildings of Scotland, Lothian (1978), p259.
Local climate
Ravelston, Humbie Children's Village receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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