Offices, Fountainhall is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Steading.
Offices, Fountainhall
- WRENN ID
- steep-remnant-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1991
- Type
- Steading
- OS grid reference
- NT 427 676
- Coordinates
- 55.89817, -2.91771
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fountainhall is a group of offices that likely dates back to the 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier elements and featuring later repairs. It is arranged in a quadrangular layout, located to the south of a mansion house. The building is constructed from cream sandstone rubble, squared and broadly droved for the dressings, and has pantile roofs. The stacks have been repaired using ashlar and brick, and the gable ends are coped with ashlar.
As of 1988, the building is in a neglected state. The northern range is largely blank, featuring a tall semi-circular cart arch off-centre to the right, with voussoirs. There is a higher blank wall in the centre and left, with the gable ends of the eastern and western ranges terminating the elevation. There are lean-to structures backing the higher wall on the courtyard side.
The western range includes a barn and granary, with a steeply pitched roof on the long range and opposing doors with chamfered arrises. A pantiled catslide provides shelter to the western elevation at the northern end. There is a hayloft door above a blocked door on the northern gabled end. The eastern range contains a stable or byre block at the northern end, featuring ventilation slits under the eaves and irregularly spaced doors. A stone forestair on the northern gable end leads to an entrance to the hayloft, which has wallhead stacks.
The southern range has timber lintelled openings and doors, likely leading to cattle courts, with some openings serving as feeding entrances. This range closes to the east with what appears to be a former farmhouse, which has a machinery door inserted into the outer elevation of the two-storey house. It retains a small first-floor window, while another window has been blocked. The eaves have a slate easing course, and there is a brick end stack to the east, along with further adjoining rubble walls.
Local climate
Offices, Fountainhall receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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