Description

Later 17th century with later alterations. 2-storey and
attic, L-plan house. Harled sandstone rubble with dressed
stone margins. Pantiled roof, slate easing course, crowsteps
and beak skewputts. Harled gable and brick stacks.
Ground floor serving as vaulted cellerage, N part entered
through pend; larger S part now divided, entered from E end
through pend.
W ELEVATION: 4-bay; abutting single storey outbuilding at
right angles, projecting from N bay. Pend under 2nd bay; door
above. L-plan forestair to right with iron railings;
decorative iron door hinges, handle and studs to timber door.
Windows altered, random arrangements, some 12-pane glazing
remains. Modern flat-roofed dormers and earlier piend roofed
dormers breaking eaves.
E ELEVATION: gabled wing to S, possibly later addition with
door below at ground; 2 1st floor windows and small window in
gable head. Stairblock with narrow window in re-entrant angle
under swept roof. Later, lower, lean-to block adjoining to
E. Pend through from main block; windows above and to right
at 1st floor level.
INTERIOR: Modernised above, but some panelled shutters
remaining. Modelled plaster frieze at head of forestair
passage. Early-mid 19th century cast-iron water-spout affixed
to W facade by pend.

Statement of Interest

Lower walls may incorporate 16th century remains. Tenement

occupies full width of rigg. Originally a tenement of the

Knight's Templar, referred to as Bamburgh Castle, allegedly

with underground passage to Dunbar Castle. Section of Town

Wall remaining to S.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17803226

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings