Farmsteading With Dovecot, Traprain is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1990. Steading.
Farmsteading With Dovecot, Traprain
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-lead-pine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1990
- Type
- Steading
- OS grid reference
- NT 592 757
- Coordinates
- 55.9733, -2.65461
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This farmsteading with a dovecot, designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1872, features a front range that is gabled and includes the dovecot. The building is constructed from squared and snecked red sandstone, with ashlar dressings. It has stone mullions on the bipartite windows and a corbelled structure over the pend. The flanking ranges are made of random rubble with sandstone dressings.
To the left of the center, there is a segmentally arched pend with a bipartite window above it leading to the gabled dovecot. The bipartite windows break the eaves in gabled dormer heads at the return angles, with three perches and nine flight holes for the doves on each side. The right side features a long blank range, while the left side has a two-storey range with three tall openings at the ground level and four at the first floor, all fitted with wooden louvred shutters.
The roof is covered with grey slates and has straight skews with moulded skewputts. A lower part of a brick stalk with an ashlar base remains, which has been incorporated into a modern barn to the left of the steading.
Local climate
Farmsteading With Dovecot, Traprain 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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