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Latitude: 56.0088 / 56°0'31"N
Longitude: -2.8641 / 2°51'50"W
OS Eastings: 346214
OS Northings: 679878
OS Grid: NT462798
Mapcode National: GBR 2N.TJGJ
Mapcode Global: WH7TP.Z79D
Plus Code: 9C8V245P+G8
Entry Name: Grotto And Garden Walls, The Manse, High Street, Aberlady
Listing Name: Aberlady Main Street the Manse with Garden Walls and Grotto
Listing Date: 27 January 1993
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338102
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6504
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200338102
Location: Aberlady
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Parish: Aberlady
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Possibly Burn and Bryce, circa 1843, remodelling of earlier manse. 2-storey with basement. White painted harl with ashlar margins, Tudor details.
S ELEVATION: door off-centre with ashlar surround in advanced gabled bay. 1st floor jettied on corbel course. 1st floor window and blank plaque to steeply pitched gable. Stair window to right, chamfered window with corbelled squinch, set in re-entrant angle at 1st floor. Narrow bay to left, 2 windows to basement, window at ground, window at 1st floor breaking eaves in gabled ashlar dormerhead. Broad gabled bay to outer left with window at ground and 1st floor. Irregular openings to E and W gabled elevations.
N ELEVATION: 2 tripartites at ground floor, 3 windows to 1st floor breaking eaves in gabled ashlar dormerheads. Sash and case windows, predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern; margined plate glass to window
to left of front door. Grey slates, coped ashlar stacks with decorative cans. Gable finials.
GARDEN WALLS: Semi-circular cope to rubble walls, curved as overthrow to pointed arched gateway to S, wooden door with decorative ironwork hinges.
GROTTO: in garden at rear, adjoining garden walls. Early 19th century, Gothic, arcaded chamber with 2 pointed arched doorways flanked by windows. Rubble with tufa and pebble rockwork.
Mapwork indicates the site of the old manse on the main road next to the church. The new manse, set back behind a wall on the site of, possibly incorporating the old, was built for Rev J H tait, minister 1861-1878. Grotto very similar to Gosford Ice House, listed separately.
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