Fountain Cottage, Main Street, East Saltoun is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Fountain Cottage, Main Street, East Saltoun

WRENN ID
hollow-copper-elm
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 May 1991
Type
Cottage
Address
Fountain Cottage, Main Street, East Saltoun, EH34 5EE
OS grid reference
NT 474 678
Coordinates
55.90066, -2.84124
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Fountain Cottage is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built in the later 19th century, located at a road junction opposite the church in East Saltoun. The cottage is constructed from squared and snecked, stugged stone, featuring chamfered reveals. The entrance is centrally positioned on the east elevation and includes a timber-bracketed gabled porch with a kingpost and finial. There is a window in each of the flanking bays. At the rear, there is a catslide roof over the original projection bay to the left, and a modern harled addition to the right. The cottage has sash and case windows with a 4-pane glazing pattern, purple slate roofing, overhanging eaves, and coped end stacks.

Local climate

Fountain Cottage, Main Street, East Saltoun receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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