Lodge And East Gates, Camptoun House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 August 1996. Lodge house.
Lodge And East Gates, Camptoun House
- WRENN ID
- late-corridor-heron
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1996
- Type
- Lodge house
- OS grid reference
- NT 503 776
- Coordinates
- 55.98912, -2.797
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Lodge and East Gates at Camptoun House date from around 1820 and consist of a single-storey, four-bay lodge house located by the east gates. The building is constructed of random rubble with contrasting grey sandstone dressings, which are broached and droved but showing signs of erosion. The front elevation, facing south, features a prominent semi-circular bow with tripartite windows, stone mullions, and a conical roof. To the right, there is a single window, while to the left, a vertically boarded door is topped with a bipartite fanlight and sheltered by a gabled hood that has a timber finial and kingpost. The end bay also contains a single window.
On the rear elevation, which faces north, the west end is gabled and includes a bipartite window with a stone mullion. There is a central lean-to outshot that has a skylight and two small windows. The windows on the rear outshot are top-opening, while all other windows are timber sash and case, featuring 12 panes in the wider windows and 6 panes in the narrower ones. The eaves and verges project, and the roof is covered with grey graded Scotch slate. There are two cavetto coped ashlar stacks with plain cans, although some are missing.
In addition to the lodge, there are outbuildings including a henhouse and a woodshed, which are leaning against the boundary wall and are currently derelict.
The gates consist of two decorative cast-iron gates for vehicular and pedestrian access. They are flanked and divided by three tall gatepiers that are round or possibly drum-shaped, made of rough snecked rubble. Two of the gatepiers have octagonal copes with ball finials, while the northernmost pier has a plain rounded top. The gates are surrounded by a rubble wall that features a castellated cope.
Local climate
Lodge And East Gates, Camptoun 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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