Shell Cottage, High Street, Aberlady is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993.

Shell Cottage, High Street, Aberlady

WRENN ID
dusted-tower-elm
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 January 1993
OS grid reference
NT 463 799
Coordinates
56.00916, -2.8623
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Shell Cottage is an 18th-century, single-story, three-bay cottage located on High Street, Aberlady, set back from the road. A former outbuilding was incorporated to the east, extending the property to four bays. The walls are white-painted harl with black margins. The front features a central door, with windows on either side of the three-bay section, and another window in the additional bay to the far right. A skew line divides this final bay. The windows are sash and case style with a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is steeply pitched, covered in red pantiles, with a coped skew and a rendered shouldered stack. The cottage is flanked by adjoining houses. An Ordnance Survey map from 1854 shows the property.

Local climate

Shell Cottage, High Street, Aberlady receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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