Seacliff Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. Cottage.

Seacliff Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 May 1989
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 608 843
Coordinates
56.05015, -2.62983
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Seacliff Cottage is a single-storey baronial service cottage built around 1845 by David Bryce. It is located next to Seacliff House and features a partial basement and attic. The exterior is constructed from stugged squared Castleton stone, with chamfered arrises around the openings.

The south elevation is asymmetrical, featuring an advanced gabled porch that is attached to a two-storey gabled tower on the right. Stone steps lead up to a wide doorway that includes a fanlight. The lintel and the opening on the west return have rounded angles, with a timber mullioned bipartite window at ground level and a single light above in the tower. To the right, there is a recessed bay with a battered stack in the re-entrant angle and a gablet with a coped parapet. A single window is located at ground level, with a blank square panel above it. There is also a single-storey and basement two-bay cottage added later to the outer right, which has a basement door and a ground floor door flanked by a window on the left. The forestair has a coped parapet, and there is a single bay with a window recessed to the outer left, flanking the porch.

The north elevation is also asymmetrical, featuring irregular openings. Ground floor windows break the eaves in a gabled dormer head, with an advanced gabled bay on the outer left and a modern dormer. The sash and case windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern, with some featuring 4-pane and small pane glazing. The roof has crowstepped skews with consoled skewputts, and the battered stacks have moulded coping.

Local climate

Seacliff Cottage 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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