Ballencrieff Granary is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

Ballencrieff Granary

WRENN ID
south-pilaster-hawk
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 485 781
Coordinates
55.99317, -2.82611
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Ballencrieff Granary is a 16th-century building, with subsequent alterations, originally built as a house and later used as a granary. It is an L-shaped structure constructed of random rubble with freestone dressings. The building has irregular openings, some of which have been blocked up. Doorways on the first floor were once accessed by a forestair, and a corbel course above indicates the former location of a lean-to. Modern sliding doors have been inserted into the ground floor of the northeast gable. There is no internal access between the ground and first floors, with access provided by ladder. The roof is covered with red pantiles, coped at the ends and crowstepped to the east, featuring a brick stack. Six beak skewputts are present, three of which bear shields displaying arms.

Historical records indicate a hospital dedicated to St Cuthbert existed at Ballencrieff in the 13th century. This later building appears to have been associated with the hospital and with a nearby property known as Redhouse, formerly Red Spittal.

Local climate

Ballencrieff Granary 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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