Main Lodge, Whittingehame House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. House. 2 related planning applications.

Main Lodge, Whittingehame House

WRENN ID
seventh-copper-weasel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 November 1990
Type
House
Address
Main Lodge, Whittingehame House, EH41 4QA
OS grid reference
NT 606 736
Coordinates
55.95463, -2.63253
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Main Lodge at Whittingehame House, likely designed by Eustace Balfour and dated 1911, is a two-storey Arts and Crafts gate lodge. It features a second storey that breaks the eaves at intervals. The exterior is constructed of pink rake-jointed rubble with droved ashlar dressings and a base course.

On the west elevation, there is a slightly advanced gabled bay on the outer left with chamfered corners, which is corbelled to a square at eaves level and has small windows. Additional small windows are located on the return elevations and in the gablehead. The doorway is set in a re-entrant, featuring a door with a small-paned upper panel and a dated lintel above. There is a square window under the eaves above the doorway, with flanking windows to the right at ground level. The outer right side has a large area of blank wall.

The east elevation has three asymmetrical bays, with a wide advanced gabled bay at the center. The doorway is off-center to the left of the gable, and there is a stone mullioned bipartite window in the gable head. A ground floor window is located in the recessed right bay, and a gabled dormer breaks the eaves for the first-floor window. There is a narrower ground floor window in the recessed outer left. A modern lean-to outbuilding flanks the doorway. The sash and case windows have a small-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey-green slates and features swept eaves. There is a gablehead stack on the west and a wallhead stack flanking the center bay to the south, along with decorative gutter fixtures.

The gatepier is made of square red sandstone ashlar and has a pyramid cap, representing the remainder of a pair, with simple wrought-iron railings attached to the house.

Local climate

Main Lodge, Whittingehame House 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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