Post Office, 4 Westgate, North Berwick is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. Post office.

Post Office, 4 Westgate, North Berwick

WRENN ID
vast-timber-mallow
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 May 1988
Type
Post office
Address
Post Office, 4 Westgate, North Berwick, EH39 4AA
OS grid reference
NT 550 852
Coordinates
56.05829, -2.72282
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building at 4 Westgate, North Berwick, is a two-storey, five-bay Edwardian Baronial post office designed by the HM Office of Works in 1906. It features a cream ashlar sandstone front, with squared rubble on the sides and red rubble at the rear.

On the southeast elevation, there is a raised base course, and the central bay is framed by a pilaster strip. The central door has a moulded surround and a triple keystone, which connects to a carved panel on the first floor. The first-floor window in the center is recessed and flanked by columns with carved capitals. Above it, there is a moulded keystone with a carved cartouche and swagging in an arched recess that breaks the entablature. The flanking ground floor windows have triple keystones and simple cornices on convex corbels. To the right, there is a doorway in the outer bay. The windows feature small-pane fanlights and panelled doors, with architraved first-floor windows and a lintel course at that level. A deep entablature with a substantial cornice is present, along with a segmental arch over the central bay and a blocking course above. There is also a cast-iron post box set into the wall panel of the outer west bay below the window cill.

A gateway with an ashlar surround is located on the eastern side. The building has sizeable ground floor extensions at the rear, a 12-pane glazing pattern, plain raised skews with coped ashlar gable head stacks, and a slate roof.

Local climate

Post Office, 4 Westgate, North Berwick receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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