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Latitude: 56.0023 / 56°0'8"N
Longitude: -2.5312 / 2°31'52"W
OS Eastings: 366970
OS Northings: 678944
OS Grid: NT669789
Mapcode National: GBR ND3V.H4T
Mapcode Global: WH8W0.2DYD
Plus Code: 9C8V2F29+WG
Entry Name: Knockenhair House, Dunbar
Listing Name: Knockenhair Road, Knockenhair House, Old Windmill, Lodge and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 4 July 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360916
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24830
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dunbar, Knockenhair House
ID on this website: 200360916
Location: Dunbar
County: East Lothian
Town: Dunbar
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: House
R Weir Schultz, 1907-10. Arts and Crafts butterfly plan.
Harled with ashlar doorways and porch. Slate roofs. Variety
of sash windows, small-pane glazing.
S ENTRANCE FRONT: advanced bay off-centre to W with ogee
roof. 2-bay pilastered porch in re-entrant angle to left. 2
later doors formed to E with architrave above. 2 flat-roofed
dormers.
N REAR: 3-storey off-centre canted bay, corbelled out above
eaves level, with ogee roof. Random openings 2 flat-roofed
dormers.
W SIDE GABLE: 2-canted bay with slated roof. Advanced chimney
stack to N.
E side gable: advanced stack to N and windows to S. Single
storey flat-roofed block to E linking with windmill.
INTERIORS: much altered by division of house. Carpentry and
joinery by R McArthur and Sons of East Linton and Dunbar.
WINDMILL: 18th century, harled sandstone rubble former
windmill, with slated cone roof. Projecting base with door to
E; narrow windows under eaves.
Interior converted for habitation.
LODGE: R Weir Schultz, 1907-10. Single storey with mansard
attic addition to N. Rectangular plan with extension N.
Harled.
Slate piended and mansard roof. Mainly sash windows.
Small-pane glazing. Ridge stack. Entrance through timber
porch recessed into SW corner.
Groome refers to the gentle eminence of knocking-haer.
The plan of the house conforms to the ridge site. Butterfly
plan houses initiated by E S Prior, R N Shaw and E Lutyens.
Commissioned by General Sir Reginald Wingate, Governor
General of Sudan. 1899-1916.
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