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Latitude: 55.9754 / 55°58'31"N
Longitude: -2.5923 / 2°35'32"W
OS Eastings: 363131
OS Northings: 675982
OS Grid: NT631759
Mapcode National: GBR 2Z.WKKB
Mapcode Global: WH8W5.42TH
Plus Code: 9C7VXCG5+53
Entry Name: Beesknowe House
Listing Name: Biel, Beesknowe
Listing Date: 2 May 1990
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348258
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14795
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200348258
Location: Stenton
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Parish: Stenton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: House
Robert Rowand Anderson, 1886. Single storey and attic
cottage, English vernacular style. Squared and snecked
red sandstone with ashlar dressings to ground floor,
mock timber-framing to attic floor.
N ELEVATION: asymmetrical 3-bay. Advanced gabled bay to left
with stone mullioned row of 5 narrow lights at ground;
jettied attic floor with 5-light canted oriel swept up from
decorative arcaded timber-framing, apex jettied again. Porch
Flanking single storey wings slightly advanced, with
at centre set in re-entrant angle, with cat-slide roof;
tripartite windows in segmentally arched panels.
entered from W through depressed arch doorway, paired
W ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2-bay addition to centre and
segmental windows to N; panelled 2-leaf door. 4-light window
flanking bay to right, with doorway on N return;
to outer right bay, detailed as left bay, and gabled 4-light
dormer window.
S ELEVATION: outer right bay gabled (S end of cross
wing) with narrow 5-light window, intercepted by stack
flanking centre bay; low stone mullioned bipartite to
ground at centre and tripartite swept dormer window above.
Canted 5-light window to outer left bay, added after 1926,
with piend roof. Glazed lean-to conservatory inserted between
outer right bay at ground, and small stone boiler house,
formerly detached.
E ELEVATION: window to left and slightly advanced stack to
right with saw-tooth set-off near ground.
W ELEVATION: blank with slightly advanced stack at
centre, breaking through apex of eaves.
Small-pane casement windows; timber mullions to attic
windows, and tile hanging to sides of dormer windows.
Rosemary tiles. Ashlar coping to stacks. Studded details to
mock timber-framing. Barge boarded overhanging eaves.
Decorative gutter fixtures.
Confusingly placed by Bielhill, rather than by
Beesknowe steading and cottages which lie nearby to W.
Shuttered ashcrete with plaster were employed between
the mock timber-framing, presenting an early use of such
a concrete. Possibly built for factor of Biel estate.
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