Peaston is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Peaston
- WRENN ID
- strange-eave-dew
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1991
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Peaston, EH35 5NL
- OS grid reference
- NT 427 653
- Coordinates
- 55.87813, -2.91666
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Peaston is a farmhouse dating from around 1800, with some additions made in the 19th century. It is a two-storey building with three main bays, featuring two lower, recessed bays on one side and a taller drawing room wing added at the rear. The structure is built from sandstone rubble, with some areas finished with harl pointing and dressed with droved ashlar.
On the west elevation, there is an ashlar porch with a cornice and blocking course added to the original house, located centrally. This porch has a doorway on the side and windows on the other elevations, with windows in the flanking bays and one in each bay on the first floor. The lower recessed bay to the south has a simpler ashlar porch added at the re-entrant angle, with a doorway on the south side and a large window beside it, along with a first-floor window. The even lower bay to the south has a window on each floor, placed asymmetrically.
The east elevation features a tall drawing room wing that projects from the right side and is two bays deep, with a bowed gable end and two first-floor windows. There is a piend-roofed addition in the re-entrant angle to the left, with irregular smaller windows in the remaining bays.
On the south elevation, there is a lean-to stone addition at the ground level of the south gable.
The farmhouse displays a variety of glazing patterns, predominantly featuring 12-pane and 4-pane sash and case windows. The building has ashlar coped skews, coped end stacks, and retains its original chimney cans, all covered with purple slates.
Local climate
Peaston receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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