Description

Dated 1856. U-plan stable court, open to W. Red rubble sandstone
with stugged ashlar dressings. Chamfered arrises to some
openings. Cobbled yard.
E RANGE: 5-bay to courtyard, with wide gabled bay at centre,
entered by deep segmental carriage arch, with clock in square
panel and date stone above; bell-cote at apex, bearing
decorative weathervane. 2 doors in flanking bays, with stable
door to outer right and louvred window to outer left, both
with louvred openings above. Rear elevation blank, but with wide
opening at S end.
N RANGE: shortest range, retaining rusticated quoins at SW from
pre-1856 building, 3-bay to courtyard, with doorway at centre,
and gabled hayloft door breaking eaves above; stone mullioned
bipartites flanking at ground; 2 lower gabled bays at outer left
with door and window.
S RANGE: 3-blocks stepping down to W; wide inserted door to
tallest block, louvred ventilators under eaves. Segmentally
arched carriage arch to centre block, with decorative
weathervane on W gable; slightly recessed end block. Rear
elevation with variety of openings. Boarded doors. Crowstepped
gables, beak skewputts and grey slates.
GROOM'S HOUSE: circa 1856. Single storey and attic, 3-bay,
L-plan cottage, linked to E end of S range; gabled ashlar porch
at centre to W elevation and gabled dormerheads to outer bays;
adjoined to single storey and basement block to N, projecting to
W. Red rubble sandstone with grey ashlar dressings, chamfered
arrises to openings. Parapet retaining wall to W front of
cottage.
4-pane glazing pattern, grey slates and gable end stacks,
crowstepped gables and beak skewputts.

Statement of Interest

Possibly by David Bryce, who designed Seacliffe Cottage

by North Berwick, with similar details to groom's house, and

who could have received the work through Burn.

Home Farm Cottages to E, listed separately.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792382

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings