56 High Street, North Berwick is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. 3 related planning applications.
56 High Street, North Berwick
- WRENN ID
- turning-wicket-winter
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1988
- Address
- 56 High Street, North Berwick, EH39 4HQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 553 853
- Coordinates
- 56.0586, -2.71918
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
60 High Street is a mid 18th century, two-storey, four-bay shop and tenement. The building is constructed of rubble, with a painted front and harled gables.
On the south elevation facing the street, there is a central doorway with a recessed door, flanked on the left by another doorway that features a panelled door. To the left, there is a modern shop front, while to the right, there is an early 20th century shop front that includes a recessed central door. The first floor windows have plate glass sashes, and there is a coped wallhead stack located at the center of the building.
The roof is pantiled, with gable head stacks and raised plain skews.
Local climate
56 High Street, North Berwick receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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