Eskside House Gazebo, 8 Eskside West, Musselburgh is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 January 1971.
Eskside House Gazebo, 8 Eskside West, Musselburgh
- WRENN ID
- hollow-latch-willow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1971
- OS grid reference
- NT 342 727
- Coordinates
- 55.94347, -3.05346
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Eskside House is a two-storey villa built in 1819, featuring a symmetrical façade that is three windows wide. The central arched doorway includes the original fanlight and narrow sidelights, with railed steps leading up to it. The villa has a piended slate roof and a front made of droved ashlar, complemented by a first-floor cill string course. The south side is constructed of rubble, while the north side is rendered, and there are end stacks. The windows are six-pane sash types.
The property is enclosed by a rendered high garden wall with a battered top, which has a central doorway framed by raised sandstone margins and coping above. There is a modern vehicular gateway located towards the north end of the wall.
In the garden, there is an octagonal gazebo dated 1776, featuring a domed slate roof topped with an urn finial. A chimney shaped like an urn is positioned above the eaves to the right of the door. The gazebo has an ogee-headed window on the back side, situated above the level of the garden wall. A curved parapetted forestair, which houses an external heating furnace, leads to an ogee-headed doorway that also has a fanlight. This doorway is made of sandstone rubble with raised margins around the window and door. The building features nine-pane top and six-pane lower sash windows, and there are brick vaults over the main room and cellar.
Local climate
Eskside House Gazebo, 8 Eskside West, Musselburgh receives an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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