Priestlaw Farmhouse is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 November 1990. Farmhouse.

Priestlaw Farmhouse

WRENN ID
under-timber-martin
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 November 1990
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NT 648 634
Coordinates
55.86256, -2.56253
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Priestlaw Farmhouse is a late 18th century, 2-storey, 3-bay gable-ended farmhouse that was expanded in the earlier 19th century with a piend-roofed, 2-storey addition. The building is constructed from rubble whinstone with ashlar dressings.

The original house features a symmetrical 3-bay frontage, which has a late 19th century piended porch added. It has a panelled door with a small-pane fanlight. The windows in the flanking bays on both floors and the central first-floor window are grouped towards the centre. The northwest elevation has 2-bay gabled sections with windows on both floors.

The later addition is attached to the northeast of the original house, matching its width and being 2-bays deep, but it has slightly lower eaves. The rear elevation is blank, with one first-floor window and a single-storey, piend-roofed addition that features a flat-roofed modern porch. The windows vary in size, with one ground floor window on the northeast altered to a timber mullioned bipartite style. The farmhouse has 12-pane sash and case windows, slate roofs, coped skews, and gable wallhead stacks.

Local climate

Priestlaw Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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.

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