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Latitude: 55.9719 / 55°58'18"N
Longitude: -2.9573 / 2°57'26"W
OS Eastings: 340348
OS Northings: 675851
OS Grid: NT403758
Mapcode National: GBR 2K.WMKG
Mapcode Global: WH7TV.J5Z5
Plus Code: 9C7VX2CV+Q3
Entry Name: Port Seton House, 128 High Street, Cockenzie
Listing Name: 126-128 (Even Nos) High Street, Port Seton House with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 5 December 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 358781
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB23030
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200358781
Location: Cockenzie and Portseton
County: East Lothian
Town: Cockenzie And Portseton
Electoral Ward: Preston, Seton and Gosford
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: House
Early 19th century. Symmetrical and plain 2-storey, 6-bay building forming pair of houses, with basement and modern extension to rear. Random rubble to rear, otherwise brown harled with painted margins.
S (FRONT) ELEVATION: each house with central door, plain boarded with 5-pane fanlight, flanked by window to each side, 3 windows to first floor.
N ELEVATION: W house with 3 windows to ground floor, above central door and small window in outer bay to basement, 2 windows to 1st floor in outer bays. E house with 1 window at ground in inner bay flanking modern extension to E, 3 windows to 1st floor.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: tiny attic window in each gablehead.
Windows timber sash and case, 12-pane in W house, 4-pane in E house. Roof in ungraded Welsh slate, plain skews. Stacks at gables and centre ridge, thackstanes, harled with plain copes and 4 plain cans to each.
BOUNDARY WALL: harl pointed rubble W squared rubble coping turning to ashlar by squared piers with domed caps.
G Bogie states that Port Seton House was built in 1709 as a bathing station for the Seton family. If so, this was an earlier structure on the same site as the current house.
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