34 High Street, Dunbar is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. House.
34 High Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- dusk-chapel-wind
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NT 679 787
- Coordinates
- 56.00103, -2.51541
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
34 High Street in Dunbar is an L-plan house built between 1788 and 1791 by Alexander Ponton. It has three storeys and a basement in the rear wing. The front is made of squared and coursed sandstone, while the rear and sides are constructed from random rubble. The building features droved plain ashlar margins and an ashlar band course above the basement, along with an eaves cornice and a rendered south gable. The roofs are slate, with gable head stacks. The windows have a 12-pane glazing pattern, which becomes smaller on the third floor.
The entrance elevation is symmetrical with five bays. It includes an early 19th-century Roman Doric porch that projects onto High Street and features a dentil cornice. The entrance has a panelled door and a plate glass fanlight, with a segmental arch over the coach entrance on the north side.
The west wing consists of four bays across the three northern bays of the High Street block, with a door located in the first return bay. The west end gable has two windows facing south, while the north elevation features a random arrangement of windows along a passage.
Inside, some original chimneypieces remain, along with some Edwardian insertions.
Local climate
34 High Street, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% 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 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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