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Grieve's Cottage, Leaston

A Category C Listed Building in Humbie, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8618 / 55°51'42"N

Longitude: -2.8243 / 2°49'27"W

OS Eastings: 348505

OS Northings: 663491

OS Grid: NT485634

Mapcode National: GBR 80QN.BJ

Mapcode Global: WH7V9.LX9M

Plus Code: 9C7VV56G+P7

Entry Name: Grieve's Cottage, Leaston

Listing Name: Leaston Farm Grieve's House

Listing Date: 1 June 1990

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 339715

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB7745

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200339715

Location: Humbie

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Haddington and Lammermuir

Parish: Humbie

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Circa 1870. Single storey, 3-bay farm cottage. Squared
sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings;
chamfered arrises to openings on SE elevation.
SE ELEVATION: gabled porch at centre with mannered
lintel and timber kingpost; 2-leaf boarded door. Narrow
windows in flanking bays and gabled timber dormers
above. Piend-roofed projection at rear given modern
harled extension to W. Blank end elevations.
8-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Timber
eaves brackets, and barge boards to gables. Ashlar
coped end stacks.

Statement of Interest

Probably by John Farquharson of Haddington, who designed

similar cottages at Eastfield, Whittingehame. Similar to

cottages at Fenton Barns, and possibly taken from

pattern book. Leaston steading to N. Leaston House is

listed below.

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