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Latitude: 56.0637 / 56°3'49"N
Longitude: -2.7999 / 2°47'59"W
OS Eastings: 350291
OS Northings: 685942
OS Grid: NT502859
Mapcode National: GBR 2R.PT2C
Mapcode Global: WH7TB.YVWB
Plus Code: 9C8V3672+F2
Entry Name: Marina Villa, Eldbotle Wood
Listing Name: Eldbottle Wood, Marine Villa
Listing Date: 7 December 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 331878
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB1347
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Eldbotle Wood, Marina Villa
ID on this website: 200331878
Location: Dirleton
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Parish: Dirleton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Cottage
Mid to later 19th century. L-plan picturesque cottage,
single storey, with attic to main wing and parallel service
cottage. Unfortunate flat-roofed modern extension to S.
Squared and snecked rubble with contrasting ashlar
dressings and base course. Chamfered arrises to
openings.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical under
sweeping eaves forming loggia. Boarded door at centre
flanked by bipartites. Decorative timber barge boarding to
gabled porch at centre, and decorative timber
balustrade and brackets to loggia columns. Cobbled
loggia floor.
N (COAST) ELEVATION: gable end to main house with raised
bay at centre; Tripartite windows at ground and 1st
floor with stone bracketted hood slabs. Eaves swept
lower to left by loggia; unusual timber eaves brackets.
Recessed single storey wing to right with former arched
doorway, (altered to windows), timber bracketted gabled
porch. Various windows. Later extension to right with
2 large windows flanking raised battered stack.
Small rectangular plan, gabled single storey cottage to S,
linked to modern extension and main house by modern
additions.
Variety of glazing patterns to casement windows.
Diamond-pane glazing to bipartite left of entrance door.
Plate glass and modern glazing. Ashlar stacks;
2 unusual stacks with moulded gabletted coping. Green
slates. Modern dormer to W of main wing.
Formerly part of the Archerfield Estate. Similar style as
Swiss Cottage, Manse Road, Dirleton. Possibly taken from
Loudon's COTTAGE FARM AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE 1842 which
includes close parallels. Secluded location with Fidra to
N. Further service cottage set to SW. Remaining walls of
former steading to NE with raised gable to N.
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