North Belton Cottages No. 5, North Belton is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989.

North Belton Cottages No. 5, North Belton

WRENN ID
quiet-arch-larch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 May 1989
OS grid reference
NT 638 771
Coordinates
55.98627, -2.58024
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

North Belton Cottages No. 1, located in North Belton, date from the later to late 19th century. They consist of three identical pairs of single-storey, three-bay cottages arranged in a U-plan. The cottages are built from squared and snecked red rubble sandstone, featuring stugged ashlar dressings and chamfered arrises.

The entrance elevations have a doorway at the center of each three-bay cottage, which is topped by a gabled porch made of decorative timber barge boarding, rails, a kingpost, and columns. Each porch includes a boarded door with a strip fanlight, and they are flanked by bipartite windows.

On the rear elevation, there are cat-slide roofs over the projecting bays at the center of the paired cottages, which feature four windows. Narrow lights flank the re-entrants, with single windows in the outer bays.

The blank end gables have plate glass sash and case windows on the entrance elevations, while the rear features four-pane and horizontal pane glazing. Timber eaves brackets support the overhanging eaves, and the cottages have grey slate roofs with coping at the center and gable end ridge stacks. Some decorative gutter fixtures have been retained.

Local climate

North Belton Cottages No. 5, North Belton 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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