Castle Inn, Manse Road, Dirleton is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 December 1988. Inn. 4 related planning applications.

Castle Inn, Manse Road, Dirleton

WRENN ID
noble-turret-larch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 December 1988
Type
Inn
Address
Castle Inn, Manse Road, Dirleton, EH39 5EP
OS grid reference
NT 513 839
Coordinates
56.04561, -2.78185
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Castle Inn, located on Manse Road in Dirleton, is a mid-19th century, two-storey inn that was raised from a single-storey structure in 1898. It features single-storey additions and outbuildings. The building is constructed of harled rubble with painted ashlar margins.

The east elevation has an irregular layout with six bays. It includes advanced gabled porches at the penultimate bays, which have raised gablet skews and shaped skewputts. The doors have chamfered arrises, and there are narrow slit windows above. Small side windows are present, along with simple windows in the outer bays, and an additional window to the right of the right porch at ground level. Above the five first-floor windows, there are gablet dormerheads designed as porches. There are also additions at the left angle.

On the north elevation, there is a former stable located off-centre to the left, featuring a hayloft opening and a gablet dormerhead above. An advanced rubble gable is situated at the right, with a harled piend-roofed extension to the right. The building showcases a variety of glazing patterns in its sash and case windows, with four-pane glazing on the east elevation. The main north and south gables have plain raised skews, and there are paired diamond stacks at the gable heads, with a triplet stack at the ridge. The roof is covered with grey slates.

Local climate

Castle Inn, Manse Road, Dirleton 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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