Sands Cottage, 3 Melbourne Road, North Berwick is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

Sands Cottage, 3 Melbourne Road, North Berwick

WRENN ID
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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 May 1988
Type
House
Address
Sands Cottage, 3 Melbourne Road, North Berwick, EH39 4JP
OS grid reference
NT 554 854
Coordinates
56.06003, -2.71703
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Sands Cottage is a mid to later 18th century, two-storey, three-bay symmetrical house. It is constructed of random rubble and has a harled eastern front and northern side, with painted stone margins.

On the eastern elevation, there is a central stair window, and the remaining shutter brackets are visible on the jambs of two ground floor windows. The northern chimney gable is blank. The western elevation features a central door with a small window flanking it to the south. There is a modern flat-roofed outbuilding attached.

The cottage has 12- and 4-pane sash windows and plain skews. The roof is made of concrete pantiles and features end gable stacks that are harled, with a thackstane on the northern side and raised with brick on the southern side.

A low rubble boundary wall, which is harled and has rounded coping, surrounds the property.

Local climate

Sands Cottage, 3 Melbourne Road, 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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