Presbytery, Star Of The Sea, R.C. Church Of Our Lady, Law Road, North Berwick is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. Presbytery.

Presbytery, Star Of The Sea, R.C. Church Of Our Lady, Law Road, North Berwick

WRENN ID
rusted-sandstone-alder
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 May 1988
Type
Presbytery
Address
Presbytery, Star Of The Sea, R.C. Church Of Our Lady, Law Road, North Berwick, EH39 4PN
OS grid reference
NT 553 849
Coordinates
56.05565, -2.7193
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The presbytery of the Star of the Sea, part of the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, was built in 1887. It is designed as a rectangular block house with a first floor that breaks the eaves, and it is connected to the church by a backing vestibule and church sacristy. The exterior is constructed of squared rubble with ashlar dressings.

On the west front, there is a recessed linking passage that features a narrow light to the north and a carved lintel. To the south, there is a chamfered doorway with a panelled door and a fanlight above. A gabled dormer is positioned above this entrance. The ground floor includes two single lights on the north side, with a French mansard dormer window above. To the south, there is an advanced gabled bay, and a canted, three-light bay window at ground level, which has gabletted crenellation. The first floor window is hoodmoulded.

The ground floor is fitted with plate glass sash windows, while the first floor features four-pane windows. The roof is steeply pitched and piended, covered with slate and accented with red terracotta ridge tiles, tiles, and ball finials, along with lead flashings on the slopes. There are end stacks and some timber bracket supports for the simple barge boarded gables.

Local climate

Presbytery, Star Of The Sea, R.C. Church Of Our Lady, Law Road, North Berwick receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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