Gardener's House, Belton House is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 17 May 1989. Cottage.

Gardener's House, Belton House

WRENN ID
proud-brick-moth
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
17 May 1989
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 645 765
Coordinates
55.98077, -2.56916
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Gardener's House at Belton House is a single storey and attic gabled L-plan cottage built in the later 19th century, originally serving as a lodge for Belton House. The structure is made of squared and snecked stugged red sandstone, featuring stugged grey ashlar dressings and chamfered arrises around the openings.

On the northeast elevation, the cottage has three bays, with a gabled outer bay to the right. The central doorway is located in a raised bay and has a shouldered lintel, a boarded door, and a blank square panel above in the gable head. To the right, there is a bipartite window with a penticed slab hood supported by moulded corbels, along with a single attic window in the gable head. The outer left bay contains a single window.

The west elevation features a broad gabled bay to the left, which includes a canted grey ashlar window topped with an overhanging piend roof, along with an attic window in the gable above. The south (rear) elevation has a simplified design with a lean-to outbuilding attached at the re-entrant angle. The east elevation has single windows at both ground and attic levels, showcasing a small-pane glazing pattern in the sash and case windows. Decorative timber pendants and paired eaves brackets adorn the overhanging eaves, which are finished with attenuated finials and grey slates. A coped cluster ridge stack completes the roofline.

Local climate

Gardener's House, Belton House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% 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 11 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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