Gardener's House, Lochend, Lochend Wood, Dunbar is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. Gabled cottage.
Gardener's House, Lochend, Lochend Wood, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- upper-joist-blackthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1989
- Type
- Gabled cottage
- OS grid reference
- NT 678 781
- Coordinates
- 55.99519, -2.51722
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Gardener's House, located in Lochend Wood, Dunbar, is a mid-19th century building that was converted from an earlier cottage. It is a two-storey gabled cottage with the first floor breaking the eaves. The exterior is constructed of random red rubble with stugged ashlar dressings.
The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, is symmetrical and features three bays. At the center is a doorway with a strip fanlight, flanked by windows on the ground floor. The first floor has windows in the outer bays, each topped with gabled dormerheads.
On the north elevation, which is integrated into the walled garden, there is an advanced gabled bay to the left that includes a first-floor window. To the right, there are two recessed bays with two ground floor windows. The sash and case windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with grey slates and has overhanging eaves supported by timber brackets, barge boards, and kingposts. Decorative filigree clay ridge tiles adorn the top, and there are gable head stacks with moulded coping, retaining their original cans.
The walled garden features high rubble walls with ashlar coping, creating a rectangular garden. There are gateways to the southeast and west, with the west gateway having pyramid caps on the piers and walls that sweep up at the sides.
Local climate
Gardener's House, Lochend, Lochend Wood, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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