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

Bielgrange

WRENN ID
small-transept-sable
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NT 618 755
Coordinates
55.9718, -2.61298
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Bielgrange is a classical farmhouse built in 1803 by Charles Ritchie. It is two stories high with three main bays and has single-story, single-bay wings, along with an addition to the west that dates from around 1840. The building is constructed from coursed red and grey sandstone ashlar, featuring a base course and an eaves cornice, with a blocking course on the eastern elevation and the single-story wings.

The eastern elevation is symmetrical, with three two-story bays at the center. The ground floor has blind segmentally arched panels, each with a window, and a cill course below the smaller first-floor windows. There are windows on each floor of the bays, with the first-floor windows being smaller. A stone-bracketed canopy shelters the doorway, which has a panelled door and a blind window above it. Each single-story wing has a window, with the right wing featuring a smaller window next to a re-entrant angle.

On the northern elevation, there is a triple segmental arcade with a parapet above the eaves of the lean-to roof behind it, and narrow windows in the center and left bays. The southern elevation has a piend-roofed single-story service building that projects at ground level, likely added around 1840, contemporaneously with the west addition.

Inside, the farmhouse features a winding stair, a bowed wall in the hall and dining room, panelled doors and window shutters, some decorative plasterwork, and a classical timber chimneypiece. The sash and case windows have a small-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates and has lead flashings, while the ashlar wallhead stacks add to the structure's character.

The property includes a terrace and retaining walls, with rubble walls forming a curved ha-ha by the eastern elevation. To the west, there are ashlar-coped rubble retaining walls adorned with decorative cast- and wrought-iron railings and gates.

Local climate

Bielgrange receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 11 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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