Assembly Rooms, Church Street, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 February 1971. Assembly rooms. 4 related planning applications.
Assembly Rooms, Church Street, Dunbar
- WRENN ID
- vacant-chapel-azure
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Constituency
- Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1971
- Type
- Assembly rooms
- Address
- Assembly Rooms, Church Street, Dunbar, EH42 1HA
- OS grid reference
- NT 680 788
- Coordinates
- 56.00188, -2.51399
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Assembly Rooms on Church Street in Dunbar were built in 1822 and feature two stories with a substantial basement. The exterior is constructed from coursed ironstone rubble, accented with droved Catcraig ashlar quoins, and topped with a piended slate roof.
The west entrance front consists of five bays, highlighted by an arched doorway in the second bay above the basement bridge, which has double doors. There are steps leading down to the basement. The ground floor has tall blind windows with sash frames, and there are also blind windows above. The side elevation is blank, with wallhead stacks.
The rear east elevation also has five bays. The basement has been altered for habitation, while the left side features three generous ground floor sash windows that serve the ballroom. The fifth bay on the first floor has a tripartite arrangement of multi-pane sashes.
Inside, there is a kitchen to the north of the ground floor, with an entrance and staircase adjoining it, and a supper room above. The former ballroom is located to the south and includes a bowed balcony off the staircase landing, a high ceiling that is coved, and a boldly moulded cornice. Decorative wrought-iron railings adorn the west front.
Local climate
Assembly Rooms, Church Street, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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