4 The Avenue, Gifford is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

4 The Avenue, Gifford

WRENN ID
third-pediment-hawthorn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
12 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
4 The Avenue, Gifford, EH41 4QX
OS grid reference
NT 533 679
Coordinates
55.90238, -2.74712
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

4 The Avenue in Gifford is a single-storey, three-bay cottage built around 1840. The structure is made of red rubble sandstone with droved ashlar margins and features heavy pointing.

On the east elevation, there is a central door with a small-pane horizontal fanlight, flanked by windows. The side elevations are blank. At the rear, there is a large modern addition with a sympathetic piend roof.

The cottage has sash and case windows with a 12-pane glazing pattern, purple slates on the roof, and cream ashlar shouldered end stacks with coping.

Local climate

4 The Avenue, Gifford 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 lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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