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East Central Cottage, Pitcox Cottages, Pitcox

A Category B Listed Building in Stenton, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9688 / 55°58'7"N

Longitude: -2.5731 / 2°34'23"W

OS Eastings: 364322

OS Northings: 675234

OS Grid: NT643752

Mapcode National: GBR ND0Y.7XL

Mapcode Global: WH8W5.F7XL

Plus Code: 9C7VXC9G+GP

Entry Name: East Central Cottage, Pitcox Cottages, Pitcox

Listing Name: Pitcox Cottages

Listing Date: 2 May 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 348230

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14776

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Pitcox, Pitcox Cottages, East Central Cottage

ID on this website: 200348230

Location: Stenton

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Parish: Stenton

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

1836. Single storey row of 4, 3-bay cottar houses, of
Improvement period, given sympathetic piend-roofed rear
additions circa 1890. Red sandstone rubble with stugged
and droved ashlar dressings.
S ELEVATION: each cottage symmetrical with doorway
flanked by almost square windows; rubble in larger
blocks below cills. Pantiles and grey slate easing course.
N ELEVATION: piend-roofed extensions to each cottage;
each with 2 windows, that to right narrower. Pantiles
and red tile easing course.
E and W elevations largely blank, with small 4-pane
windows by re-entrant angles to rear.
12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows.
Mutual gable and end stacks in ashlar.

Statement of Interest

Important, early examples of post-Improvement cottages;

possibly after Lord Rosebery's Dalmeny Cottages, illustrated

in London (1836) and earlier in the Highland Society

TRANSACTIONS; Lord Blantyre's Improved Cottages illustrated

in the Society's 1847-9 TRANSACTIONS, on the nearby

Lennoxlove estate, were more probably derived from the

example at Pitcox, than the reverse. The entail records

account for 8 cot houses in 1836, and the presumably

identical second row of 4 was evident on the 1854 OS

map, to E, evidently replaced later. The 8 cost $261.15.4,

through the commission of Mary Hamilton Nisbet Ferguson

of Biel. The 4 cottages are at present (1988) uninhabited.

2 further later rows now echo the above cottages to E,

similarly bordering the roadside, not included in current

listings.

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