Bowling Green House, Main Street, Athelstaneford is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. 3 related planning applications.
Bowling Green House, Main Street, Athelstaneford
- WRENN ID
- tired-tallow-willow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Address
- Bowling Green House, Main Street, Athelstaneford, EH39 5BE
- OS grid reference
- NT 536 773
- Coordinates
- 55.98662, -2.74513
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Bowling Green House, dated 1866, originally comprised two cottages designed to provide homes for retired estate workers. It is situated on Main Street, Athelstaneford, adjacent to the village bowling green. The building is single-storey and has three bays. It is constructed of squared and snecked rubble freestone with grey ashlar dressings. The central bay is advanced and gabled, featuring windows to both the front and rear, and each return has a doorway. Flanking bays also have windows. The north and south gable ends are blank, each with an advanced, quoined flue at the centre. Windows are sash and case bipartites with wooden mullions and a four-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates, with overhanging, bracketed eaves, and cope ashlar stacks.
The cottages were built by Kinloch of Gilmerton. After the First World War, Kinloch sold all other cottages in the village except Bowling Green House. It is now administered by Trustees and operates as a village shop and Post Office.
Local climate
Bowling Green House, Main Street, Athelstaneford 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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