Boathouse, Gosford House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.

Boathouse, Gosford House

WRENN ID
veiled-rafter-amber
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 February 1971
OS grid reference
NT 458 787
Coordinates
55.9986, -2.86957
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This earlier 19th-century boathouse is constructed from bull-faced cream sandstone and sits within a bank overlooking the lake. The gabled elevation features a large segmental arch. Broad ashlar coped stairs lead down to the lake, with a wallhead die supporting large lions in a reclining position. The roof is piended at the rear, with a doorway set within a bull-faced, pedimented porch topped with a ball finial. The boathouse forms an attractive group with other buildings on the Gosford Estate, and further details are recorded in the notes for Gosford House. Historic drawings from 1808 show the pleasure grounds of Gosford, and it is also depicted on an Ordnance Survey map of Haddingtonshire from 1854.

Local climate

Boathouse, Gosford House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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