Cottage, Samuelston is a Grade C listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 27 January 1993. Cottage.

Cottage, Samuelston

WRENN ID
solitary-baluster-pine
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
27 January 1993
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NT 484 709
Coordinates
55.92886, -2.8259
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This cottage in Samuelston, built around 1835, is a single-storey structure with three bays. It features squared and snecked stugged sandstone ashlar with ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are made of rubble. The entrance door is centrally located, with small windows on either side positioned just below the eaves. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition. The cottage has sash and case windows with a 4-pane glazing pattern. The roof is covered with red pantiles and has ashlar coped skews along with coped ashlar end stacks. In front, there is a rubble coped retaining wall that borders the garden.

Local climate

Cottage, Samuelston receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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