Fairman's Land, 1-3 High Street, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
Fairman's Land, 1-3 High Street, Musselburgh
- WRENN ID
- weathered-chapel-ridge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- Type
- Commercial building
- OS grid reference
- NT 347 727
- Coordinates
- 55.94376, -3.04603
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fairman's Land, located at 1-3 High Street in Musselburgh, dates from around 1760 and is a three-storey building with an attic. It features a symmetrical facade that is six windows wide, highlighted by a central porch in the Tuscan distyle, which shelters an architraved doorpiece topped with a five-arched-pane fanlight. There are segmental arched pends at each end, although the left one is blocked and contains a window. The building has massive end and central chimney stacks that enclose a slate roof. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble with raised margins around the windows and corniced eaves.
The roof includes four small piended square dormers and six-pane sash windows. At the rear, there is a later wing that has gablets above the dormer-headed first-floor windows and a crowstep gable end, with a piended slate roof adjacent to the main rear wall. Additionally, there is a much-altered lectern doocot on the property.
Local climate
Fairman's Land, 1-3 High Street, Musselburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 4 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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