Eden Hotel, Belhaven Road, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 January 1988. Hotel. 1 related planning application.

Eden Hotel, Belhaven Road, Dunbar

WRENN ID
under-ashlar-thunder
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
11 January 1988
Type
Hotel
Address
Eden Hotel, Belhaven Road, Dunbar, EH42 1DD
OS grid reference
NT 675 788
Coordinates
56.00116, -2.52235
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Eden Hotel, located on Belhaven Road in Dunbar, is an earlier 19th-century, two-storey building with an attic and basement. This symmetrical, three-bay classical house is constructed from red sandstone coursed rubble, featuring droved ashlar dressings and a facade with raised plain margins and rusticated quoins. It has plate glass sash windows with 12-pane glazing.

On the north entrance front, there is a stone flight of steps adorned with decorative wrought-iron balustrades. The entrance features an Ionic doorpiece with a cornice and blocking course, along with a panelled door and fanlight. The fenestration is symmetrical, and there are two slated dormers.

The south face includes a full-height canted bay at the center, which has a door at the basement level and two lights on the first and second floors. The west front has a full-height gabled extension block built around 1896. This extension is made of rendered concrete, resting on and overhanging a single-storey basement projection, and features mock windows, a door, and an oriel window. It was designed by Henry F Kerr from Edinburgh for use as a photographic dark room, pantry, bathroom, and lift.

The east face has a flat-roofed extension block at the basement and ground floor, which includes a door and windows. The basement windows have been altered at the sides and rear.

Inside, the hotel has been much altered, but some decorative plasterwork and shutters remain.

Local climate

Eden Hotel, Belhaven Road, 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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