Old Manse, Pilmuir is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1992. 3 related planning applications.
Old Manse, Pilmuir
- WRENN ID
- salt-moulding-blackthorn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1992
- Address
- Old Manse, Pilmuir, EH41 4HP
- OS grid reference
- NT 486 691
- Coordinates
- 55.91227, -2.82351
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Old Manse at Pilmuir is a two-story, three-bay dormer Free Church manse dating to around 1845, accompanied by a single-story range of outbuildings. The main elevation is built of cream-coloured stone laid in a coursed, snecked and stugged pattern, with ashlar dressings. The sides and rear are of rubble yellow stone. A central doorway has a panelled door and fanlight, flanked by ground floor windows and a window in each bay at the first floor. A stair window is present at the rear, flanked by windows to the left, with an additional first-floor window inserted. A piend-roofed stone porch connects at ground level to the piend-roofed outbuildings. Twelve-pane glazing is used in the sash and case windows. The roof is covered in grey slates, with shouldered end stacks. The windows follow a twelve-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows and grey slates cover the roof. The curtain wall and well located to the south-east of the house are the only remaining features of the former Free Church and the now-vanished hamlet of Pilmuir.
Sales details from Morton, Fraser and Milligan (1988) provide further information.
Local climate
Old Manse, Pilmuir receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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.
More on this building
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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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