Woodhall House is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Tower house, mansion.

Woodhall House

WRENN ID
tattered-foundation-aspen
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
13 May 1991
Type
Tower house, mansion
OS grid reference
NT 428 680
Coordinates
55.90257, -2.91581
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Woodhall House is a tower house dating from around 1560, which underwent restoration and alterations in 1884, including a significant Baronial addition. A further extension was added to the rear by Michael Calthrop between 1973 and 1974. The building is constructed from rubble sandstone with harl-pointing and features ashlar dressings that are variously dressed. Some openings have roll-moulding, and the structure includes crowsteps and beak skewputts.

Originally a three-storey tower house, it was truncated to two storeys during the 1884 restoration and received a gabled roof with a wallhead stack to the west, adjacent to the new extension. The original doorway, likely located to the left of the south elevation, is currently blocked and replaced with a window, with an additional window flanking it to the right. A corbelled bartizan is positioned at the northeast corner on the second floor, topped with a cornice roof covered in fishscale slates and a finial, and includes one window.

The east elevation features windows at the center, with a panel above dated 1884 that states "Restored by Trevelyan," and a thistle finial at the apex. There is a gabled single-storey projection to the north on the left and an enlarged window at the first floor. The interior has a vaulted ground floor, with walls that are four feet thick.

The 1884 mansion is two storeys high with three bays on the south side, featuring a central door with a modern window above it. The left outer bay projects and has bipartite windows, while the right of center has single windows, with a first-floor window breaking the eaves in a gabled dormer head. A large stair block and porch project to the rear in an altered form, with modern openings on the west elevation.

There is a regrettable modern extension to the northwest that incorporates fragments of an earlier extension from 1910. The glazing patterns vary, with plate glass sash and case windows being the majority. The 1884 work features grey-green slates, while the modern addition uses purple slates. The building has coped stacks.

A semi-circular rubble wall with roll-moulded coping forms a terrace wall to the south. Decorative wrought and cast-iron gates and railings are located at the entrance to the east.

Local climate

Woodhall House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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