Stenton School is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 May 1990. Primary school. 2 related planning applications.

Stenton School

WRENN ID
nether-landing-russet
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 May 1990
Type
Primary school
Address
Stenton School, EH42 1TE
OS grid reference
NT 620 740
Coordinates
55.95756, -2.60971
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

Stenton School, possibly designed by William Lambie Moffat, was built in 1878. It is a single-storey school with a near T-plan layout and porches, located on an island incline at a fork in the road. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble with stugged dressings, featuring a base course and chamfered arrises. It has stone mullions and transoms, and the round-arch windows are adorned with cusping.

On the northeast elevation, there is an advanced gabled jamb at the center, which includes a tripartite window with a relieving arch above it. A clock is set in a circular panel at the apex of this gable. There is a single window on each return. The school has three-bay porches set in re-entrant angles on either side, each with a slightly advanced gabled entrance. The doorways feature fanlit designs with shouldered lintels, flanked by paired windows on each side. Above each doorway is a carved ribbon, inscribed "Boys" to the right and "Girls" to the left, with "1878" and "AD" set in shields above the respective ribbons. A flight of stone steps leads to the boys' entrance. At the center of the northeast jamb, there is a gabled corbelled bellcote attached to the ridge stack.

The east and west elevations each feature a tripartite window in the main gable, detailed as previously described, and both have gable end stacks. The southeast elevation is five bays wide, with a slightly advanced, wide gabled bay at the center that includes a tripartite window and stacks, along with decorative skewputts and apex finials. The roof is covered with grey slates and includes a ridge ventilator.

There is an outbuilding to the south of the school, consisting of a piend-roofed row of sheds against a retaining wall. This outbuilding is made of sandstone rubble and supported by cast-iron columns. It features three bays on each side of a small piend-roofed projection at the center, which has a doorway on the east return.

The school playgrounds are bordered by rubble coped retaining walls, which are situated on falling ground. These walls have concrete repairs and wrought-iron railings to the northwest, along with ashlar coping on the low walls to the north.

Local climate

Stenton School 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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