Oatfield House, Main Road, Dirleton is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1988. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.

Oatfield House, Main Road, Dirleton

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Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 December 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Oatfield House, Main Road, Dirleton, EH39 5EQ
OS grid reference
NT 515 843
Coordinates
56.04911, -2.77942
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Oatfield House is a possibly late 18th century farmhouse that has been significantly remodeled and extended. It now features a two-storey, L-plan layout with a single-storey wing to the west and a three-bay front. In 1909, architects Peddie and Washington Browne added a mansard attic, and there is also a modern addition at the rear. The exterior is constructed of harled rubble with painted ashlar dressings, raised cills, and rusticated quoins.

The south elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central pilastered doorpiece with an architraved door and a decorative fanlight. The windows in the flanking bays have pulvinated friezes. To the west, there is a recessed four-bay wing from 1909, which includes bipartite windows at the ground level in the center and right, as well as pedimented dormerheads for the first-floor windows. The outer left bay is raised and designed as an ogee-roofed pavilion, which has an arched doorway set in a raised ashlar panel. The north elevation is asymmetrical, with a pavilion in the outer right bay made of rubble, featuring a doorway and windows.

The sash and case windows have 12-pane glazing, and the roofs are slated with swept eaves on the mansard. The end stacks have moulded coping, with some being raised. The interior has been much altered due to subdivision.

Local climate

Oatfield House, Main Road, Dirleton 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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