Police Station, 50, 52, 54 High Street, North Berwick is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. Police station. 2 related planning applications.
Police Station, 50, 52, 54 High Street, North Berwick
- WRENN ID
- knotted-mantel-larch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1988
- Type
- Police station
- OS grid reference
- NT 553 853
- Coordinates
- 56.0586, -2.71909
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This building is a police station located at 50, 52, and 54 High Street in North Berwick, designed by W J Walker Todd in 1933. It is a three-storey, seven-bay structure in a quasi-classical style, featuring a third storey that breaks the eaves. Originally, it was combined with police houses. The exterior is harled, with a droved ashlar base course, a first-floor cill course, and distinct door bays.
The south front is symmetrical, with three central bays flanked by entrance bays. It has wide, roll-moulded door surrounds that include a pulvinated frieze and cornice. The windows are moulded and lugged, with flanking scrolls above. The outer bays contain paired windows on the ground floor and narrower windows on the first floor. A simple, substantial cornice runs below the second-floor parapet, and the second-floor windows break the eaves, featuring piended dormer-heads.
The northeast elevation, or rear, has asymmetrical openings of varied sizes and includes a projecting stair block that is off-centre. To the right, there is a gabled single-storey projecting outbuilding. The building has small-pane sash windows and a slated piended roof with a single central stack and end stacks.
Local climate
Police Station, 50, 52, 54 High Street, North Berwick 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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