Curling House, Gosford House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971.
Curling House, Gosford House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-pillar-flax
- 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 458 788
- Coordinates
- 55.9995, -2.86999
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This early 19th-century curling house is located near the lake at Gosford House. It has a distinctive picturesque design, built with a single, oval-shaped chamber. The exterior is characterized by rustic construction using tufa rockwork, extending to form low curtain walls with occasional pinnacles, and embellished with large shells attached to the ground. A round arched entrance is set within an advanced porch, featuring decorative glazing. The roof is polygonal and made of zinc.
Inside, the curling house features timber panelling and lockers designed to hold curling stones. Originally, the structure was thatched in a “cottage orne” style, according to a description by J Hunt in Country Life in 1971. An associated icehouse is also walled with tufa. The curling house forms part of a larger group of buildings on the Gosford Estate, and its significance is understood in the context of Gosford House itself. Plans by J Ainslie from 1808 document the pleasure grounds of Gosford.
Local climate
Curling House, 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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