Ardshiel, Edinburgh Road, West Barns, Dunbar is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. Terrace house. 1 related planning application.

Ardshiel, Edinburgh Road, West Barns, Dunbar

WRENN ID
spare-rotunda-thyme
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 May 1989
Type
Terrace house
Address
Ardshiel, Edinburgh Road, West Barns, Dunbar, EH42 1UP
OS grid reference
NT 654 781
Coordinates
55.99503, -2.55539
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Ardshiel is a mid 19th century, two-storey, four-bay terrace house located on Edinburgh Road in West Barns, Dunbar. The building features a carriage pend and appears to incorporate parts of a late 19th century predecessor. It is constructed from squared and snecked, stugged red sandstone with stugged ashlar dressings on the south side, while the sides and rear are made of harl-pointed rubble.

The south elevation, which faces the road, has three bays grouped closely in the center and left. It includes a doorway with a stone-bracketed canopy, a panelled door, and a plate glass fanlight. There are windows flanking the doorway at ground level, with the cill of the right-hand window likely retained from the earlier building. The outer bay to the right features a segmentally arched carriage pend with chamfered arrises and boarded doors, along with a first-floor window above.

At the rear, there is a forestair leading to a doorway that has been altered from what was formerly a stair window at the center. The eaves of Ardshiel are higher than those of the adjacent buildings, Red Tiles and West Barns Inn. The windows are sash and case with an 8-pane glazing pattern. The building has broad end stacks with brick repairs and ashlar coped skews, topped with grey slates.

Local climate

Ardshiel, Edinburgh Road, West Barns, Dunbar 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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