Goblin Ha' Hotel, Main Street, Gifford is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 1 June 1990. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Goblin Ha' Hotel, Main Street, Gifford

WRENN ID
south-panel-laurel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
1 June 1990
Type
Hotel
Address
Goblin Ha' Hotel, Main Street, Gifford, EH41 4QH
OS grid reference
NT 533 680
Coordinates
55.90331, -2.74719
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Goblin Ha' Hotel is a two-storey establishment made up of four properties, including one building from the mid-18th century and a terrace of mid-19th century houses. The exterior is rendered and linted, featuring a base course with painted margins.

The mid-18th century property faces The Square and is positioned at right angles to the later terrace. It has three wide bays, with a central door and a window to the left, featuring two-leaf doors. Each flanking bay has a window at ground level and another under the eaves. The windows on the ground floor have a four-pane glazing pattern, while the first-floor windows have a twelve-pane design. The roof is made of pantiles with a grey slate easing course, and there are gable end stacks.

The properties on Main Street consist of two combined 19th-century terrace houses that have undergone later alterations. The south elevations show a three-bay property to the west, featuring a segmentally pedimented doorpiece at the center, flanked by pilasters and topped with an ornate wrought-iron overthrow and hotel sign. There are single windows on each floor to the right and stone mullioned bipartite windows to the left. The property also has two canted, piend-roofed dormers from the late 19th century, with a four-pane glazing pattern in the sash and case windows, and a roof covered in purple slates with gable wallhead stacks.

To the right is a five-bay property with painted rubble. It has a central door flanked by large windows in each bay at ground level, with an additional window to the outer left. The first-floor windows are located in the bays flanking the center. Some small-pane modern hopper windows are present at the ground floor, while the remaining windows feature four-pane sash and case designs. This property also has a roof of purple slates and gable end stacks.

A circa 1900 bay connects the west gable end of the terrace with the earlier property at right angles, featuring garage doors below and a single window above. Decorative gutter fixtures have been retained, and there is a flagpole above the pedimented doorway, along with a bracketed hotel sign to the outer left.

Local climate

Goblin Ha' Hotel, Main Street, 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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