17Th Century House, Courtyard Behind 71-75 High Street, Dunbar is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

17Th Century House, Courtyard Behind 71-75 High Street, Dunbar

WRENN ID
idle-sill-rook
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 679 789
Coordinates
56.00199, -2.51544
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a 17th century house located behind 71-75 High Street in Dunbar, forming an L-plan with two adjoining wings that have different ridge heights. The structure is made of rendered sandstone rubble and features a pantiled roof with crowsteps and curved beak skewputs. The gable is harled, and there are brick stacks present. The windows display a variety of small-pane glazing patterns.

The east wing is two stories high and has a slated easing course. It includes a pend under a forestair, with a door above and a window to the right. The ground floor to the north is accessed through the pend, although the openings at the rear are blocked. This wing is connected in the courtyard to the north by a single-storey rendered outbuilding with a pantiled roof, which links to number 75 High Street. The rear elevation has random openings and a piended attic dormer.

The south wing has higher eaves and a steeply pitched gable above a three-storey block. The courtyard face features a bowed stair block at the center, with the roof sweeping into the main eaves. The elevation facing Cossarr's Wynd has random windows and three swept dormers that break the eaves. The east gable has three vertically aligned windows to the north. Additionally, number 73, an 18th-century three-storey harled block, serves as an extension to number 71 High Street, with its east end abutting the gable of the 17th-century house. It features a panelled door to the right, a parapet to a small forecourt, and decorative iron railings.

Local climate

17Th Century House, Courtyard Behind 71-75 High Street, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 10 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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