Carberry House, Carberry Tower is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. House. 1 related planning application.
Carberry House, Carberry Tower
- WRENN ID
- tenth-eave-plum
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carberry House, Carberry Tower, EH21 8PY
- OS grid reference
- NT 366 699
- Coordinates
- 55.91845, -3.01485
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Carberry House, located within Carberry Tower, was built in 1909 and is a two-storey house designed in an H-plan layout, featuring single-storey porches that fill the re-entrant angles and showcase Tudor architectural details. The exterior is harled with cream sandstone ashlar dressings, and there is applied timber-framing on the jettied gableheads, which are canopied on swept cavetto corbel courses. The windows are made of stone mullions.
On the southeast elevation, there is a lean-to porch in the central recess, which includes an original section to the right with a bipartite window and modern infill to the left that consists of timber boarding, a doorway, and a window. Above, there are two windows on the first storey under a gabled dormerhead. The outer right features two-storey gabled bays with a rectangular, six-light, piend-roofed window at ground level and two bipartite windows on the first floor. The mirrored bays on the outer left have a tripartite window and a single window on both the ground and first floors.
The northeast elevation has a flat-roofed porch set in the re-entrant angle at the centre, with a dormerhead above a single first-floor window. The gabled outer bay to the right includes a window at ground level and a doorway on the first floor with a cast-iron forestair. The outer bay to the left features a doorway and window at ground level, along with two first-floor windows.
Both the east and west elevations are three-bay designs, with a canopied, applied timber-framed gablehead in the centre bay. The west elevation has single windows at ground and first floors in the centre and outer right bays, and a bipartite window in the outer left bay. The east elevation includes a modern addition at ground level on the outer right, with a first-floor window above, and a forestair leading to the first-floor doorway at the centre, with a window below; there is also a window in each floor of the outer left bay.
The sash and case windows feature a multi-pane glazing pattern, and the roof is covered with grey-green slates. The eaves overhang with timber brackets and bargeboarding, and the ashlar-margined, harled stacks retain their original cans. Decorative gutterheads are dated 1910.
Local climate
Carberry House, Carberry Tower receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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