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Latitude: 55.9991 / 55°59'56"N
Longitude: -2.5386 / 2°32'19"W
OS Eastings: 366502
OS Northings: 678591
OS Grid: NT665785
Mapcode National: GBR ND2V.RQR
Mapcode Global: WH8VZ.ZG9W
Plus Code: 9C7VXFX6+JG
Entry Name: Gate-Lodge, Belhaven House, Duke Street, Belhaven, Dunbar
Listing Name: Belhaven, Duke Street, Belhaven House, Lodge, Garden Arch, Entrance Gates, Piers and Walls
Listing Date: 11 January 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360781
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24734
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dunbar, Belhaven, Duke Street, Belhaven House, Gate-lodge
ID on this website: 200360781
Location: Dunbar
County: East Lothian
Town: Dunbar
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Gatehouse
Circa 1825. 2-storey, basement and attic 5-bay, classical
house with single storey extension to W elevation,
full-height wing to N. Sydney Mitchell and Wilson 1908.
Rendered and lined as ashlar with rusticated quoins at front;
harling at rear.
S ENTRANCE FRONT: bracketted doorpiece, later addition.
Flight of steps oversailing basement with decorative
cast-iron railings. 2 later 19th century canted, slated
dormers. 4-pane glazing pattern. Slated piend roof and end
stacks.
INTERIOR: Tripartite inner door to vestibule. Panelled
window shutters retained.
GARDEN ARCHWAY: early 20th painted brick wall and archway
with central sedant lion on undulated panel, flanked at base
by urns in red sandstone.
LODGE: Sir Robert Lorimer 1911-1912. Single storey and attic,
Arts and Crafts cottage, with 2-storey slate hung later
extension to N. Squared, snecked rubble.
W ENTRANCE: central, ogee-roofed porch resting on low rubble
walls and timber posts; flanking windows. Diminutive piended
dormer breaking eaves to E in recessed bay. Multi-pane
casement windows under swept, slate eaves, coped rubble stack
in N slope of roof.
ENTRANCE GATEWAY BY THE LODGE: square gate piers, rusticated
on road side with moulded caps and thistle finials.
Decorative wrought-iron gates with BH initials. Squared
rubble walls with semi-circular coping. Narrow gate to the
Lodge with wrought-iron gate.
A design (unexecuted) for Belhaven House occurred in
Vitruvius Scoticus.
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