Blackdykes is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Steadings. 3 related planning applications.
Blackdykes
- WRENN ID
- hollow-porch-storm
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Steadings
- Address
- Blackdykes, EH39 5PQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 581 837
- Coordinates
- 56.04439, -2.67394
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Blackdykes is a quadrangular plan steading built between 1826 and 1827. It is constructed from random red and grey-green rubble with dressed cream ashlar details and features a pantile roof.
The south range is asymmetrical, featuring an 8-bay cartshed with two gabled advanced bays at the southern end of the eastern range. This section includes a low segmental archway on the right and two loft openings above. To the right, there are recessed bays with five cart arches and similar openings above. An outer right archway is higher and wider, equipped with a sliding door and a smaller upper opening. There is also a recessed single-storey stable to the right, which has three doorways and two openings, along with an advanced gable at the northern end of the eastern range.
The western range includes a horsemill located at the center, which has a doorway and a broad hayloft opening. The horsemill is octagonal in shape, featuring an inserted doorway on the southwest side and openings along the western range, with rubble filling between the piers. Additionally, there is a lower piend roofed building attached to the northern end of the western range, which may have served as the former engine house.
Local climate
Blackdykes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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