Mounting Steps, High Street, Aberlady is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

Mounting Steps, High Street, Aberlady

WRENN ID
second-parapet-gilt
Grade
C
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 461 798
Coordinates
56.00818, -2.86476
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century mounting block situated on the High Street in Aberlady, outside the churchyard to the west of the main gates. The block is constructed of four sandstone steps, topped with a large slab of stone. It is also referred to as the Loupin-on Stane. The structure is of group value, contributing to the character of the area. Details of the block are recorded in J Martine’s Reminiscences and Notices of Fourteen Parishes of the County of Haddington (1890) and C McWilliam’s Lothian (1978).

Local climate

Mounting Steps, High Street, Aberlady receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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