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Cottage 4, Farm Cottages, Eastfield

A Category B Listed Building in Whittingehame, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9608 / 55°57'39"N

Longitude: -2.6297 / 2°37'47"W

OS Eastings: 360781

OS Northings: 674381

OS Grid: NT607743

Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.XH3Q

Mapcode Global: WH8W4.KFYP

Plus Code: 9C7VX96C+84

Entry Name: Cottage 4, Farm Cottages, Eastfield

Listing Name: Eastfield, Farm Cottages

Listing Date: 27 November 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351449

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17505

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Eastfield, Farm Cottages, Cottage 4

ID on this website: 200351449

Location: Whittingehame

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Parish: Whittingehame

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Farm labourers cottage

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Description

Probably William Burn, circa 1830. Single storey symmetrical
row of 6 cottages, some with attic, given additional
dormers by John Farquharson of Haddington, 1876. Squared
and snecked stugged red sandstone with droved ashlar
dressings. Timber mullions.
SE ELEVATION: centre block of 4 cottages, 6-bay single
storey with attics, flanked by 2-bay T-plan cottages.
Stone bracketted canopies to bipartite windows to 2 centre
and 2 outer bays of main block, with depressed arch,
voussoired recesses in intermediate bays. Gabled
dormerheads above bipartite windows; 2 flat-roofed
slate-hung dormers (1876). Single storey cottages with
advanced gabled bays nearest main block, with stone
bracketted canopy above bipartite windows and blind slit
in gablehead; single windows to recessed outer bays.
NW ELEVATION: main block with 4 rear entrances and
symmetrically placed small windows. 4 slate-hung dormer
partly glazed small square skylights. Outer cottages
similarly detailed.
END ELEVATIONS: gabled ends walls of detached cottages
with blind windows, bracketted canopies and blind slits in
apex.
4-pane and lying-pane glazing patterns to sash and case
windows. Grey slates. Ridge and gable end stacks to
main range, ridge stacks to outer cottages. Saw-tooth
coping to skews; decorative skewputts to gabled
dormerheads.

Statement of Interest

Eastfield Farm lies to S, and was originally the

Home Farm of the Estate (listed separately). The Farm

Manager's house, to W of cottages, is listed separately.

3 gabled privy and coal-shed outbuildings were built to

either side of cottages.

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