8 Farm Cottages, Whitekirk is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. 2 related planning applications.
8 Farm Cottages, Whitekirk
- WRENN ID
- roaming-facade-acorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 17 May 1989
- Address
- 8 Farm Cottages, Whitekirk, EH42 1XS
- OS grid reference
- NT 595 815
- Coordinates
- 56.02522, -2.6513
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Post Cottage in Whitekirk is an earlier 19th-century single-storey row originally consisting of five two-bay cottages, set on a slope. The building is constructed of rubble whinstone with stugged cream ashlar dressings featuring droved borders.
The west elevation facing the street has ten bays. There are doorways located in the first, fourth, and seventh bays, while a former doorway in the tenth bay from the left has been blocked and converted into a window. The doors are boarded and have two-pane fanlights above them. The remaining bays contain windows, which feature a four-pane glazing pattern typical of sash and case windows. The roof is covered with pantiles, complemented by a slate easing course at the eaves, and there are brick ridge stacks.
Local climate
8 Farm Cottages, Whitekirk receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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