Hot Houses, Dunglass House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989.
Hot Houses, Dunglass House
- WRENN ID
- muffled-spindle-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1989
- OS grid reference
- NT 762 721
- Coordinates
- 55.9414, -2.38203
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Walled Garden at Dunglass House dates from the early 19th century and features a rectangular plan. It is enclosed by high rubble walls with ashlar coping, rounded at the corners, surrounding a garden area measuring 400 feet by 225 feet. To the north, there are lean-to service buildings that include top-hopper windows, boarded doors, one set of sliding doors, and a wallhead stack for the heating chamber. Circa 1925, traditional hot-houses were added against the interior of the north wall, likely designed by Mackenzie and Moncur. These hot-houses have ashlar base courses and a projecting canted centerpiece topped with a finial, along with cast-iron brackets and heating pipes.
Local climate
Hot Houses, Dunglass House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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