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Latitude: 55.8516 / 55°51'5"N
Longitude: -2.8607 / 2°51'38"W
OS Eastings: 346213
OS Northings: 662383
OS Grid: NT462623
Mapcode National: GBR 80GS.G6
Mapcode Global: WH7VH.151W
Plus Code: 9C7VV42Q+MP
Entry Name: School, Humbie Children's Village
Listing Name: 13 Shillinghill, Formerly "The School"
Listing Date: 1 June 1990
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 339702
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7733
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Humbie Children's Village, School
ID on this website: 200339702
Location: Humbie
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Haddington and Lammermuir
Parish: Humbie
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: School building
J H Cooper, 1903. Voyseyesque single storey, rectangular plan school. Harled with red tile roof. 4-bay N elevation with lower eaves to piend roofed E end, sweeping over lean-to outbuilding and simple doorway.
Remaining bays with tall bipartite at centre, breaking eaves with coped wallhead, and flanked by buttresses; single windows under overhanging eaves to each side.
W gable elevation with timber mullioned bipartite at ground and 3 small, square windows above, large clock at gablehead. Battered stack to right, currently truncated and serving as buttress. S elevation with timber craft room advanced from main block and under catslide roof.
Modern addition to E end.
Funded by the St George's School Holiday Home Association, thus providing the first open-air residential school in Scotland.
Part of the former Humbie Children's Village built in 1906 in Arts and Crafts style. The village was built to provide holiday accommodation for children with disabilities and was made up of separate cottages with a hall and school. It became a residential care facility in the later 20th century before closing in the 1990s and being redeveloped into private housing in 2008.
List description updated 2009.
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