Whittingehame Tower Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. Cottage.
Whittingehame Tower Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-brick-yew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1990
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 601 731
- Coordinates
- 55.95009, -2.63914
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Whittingehame Tower Cottage is a late 19th century, 2-storey symmetrical pair of estate cottages that have been converted into one dwelling, with alterations made around 1910. The building is constructed of squared and snecked red sandstone and features stone mullions.
The southeast elevation has five bays, with a small window at the center and a small bipartite window above it. There are doorways on either side, each with small-pane upper panels. The outer bays have bipartite windows at the ground floor, and the first floor features boat-shaped dormerheads that date from around 1910.
On the northwest elevation, there are two advanced bays at the center, topped with an M-shaped gable. This elevation also has bipartite windows at both the ground and first floors, with a string course dividing the two levels. Each of the outer bays has a small window at the ground floor.
The end elevations have small first floor windows flanking a stack that is raised at that level, and there is moulded coping on the double gatehead stacks. A pentice-roofed outbuilding is attached to the southwest end elevation. The windows throughout include plate glass sash and case windows as well as small-pane casements, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring skylights on the south pitch.
Local climate
Whittingehame Tower Cottage 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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