Chimney, Prestongrange Colliery is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 2000.

Chimney, Prestongrange Colliery

WRENN ID
quiet-facade-shade
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 2000
OS grid reference
NT 371 735
Coordinates
55.95116, -3.00877
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The chimney at Prestongrange Colliery is a later 19th-century structure. It is a single-storey, 12-bay, rectangular-plan, red brick, 24-chamber 'continuous' Hoffman kiln. The walls are battered and feature hoodmoulded round-arched openings, which include paired doors and kiln openings. The roof is flat. Adjacent to the south is a freestanding 16-stage brick chimney, which has string courses dividing the stages and a cornice at the top.

Local climate

Chimney, Prestongrange Colliery 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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