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Dunbar Station, Station Road, Dunbar

A Category B Listed Building in Dunbar, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9982 / 55°59'53"N

Longitude: -2.5132 / 2°30'47"W

OS Eastings: 368090

OS Northings: 678483

OS Grid: NT680784

Mapcode National: GBR ND4V.Z94

Mapcode Global: WH8W0.CHHJ

Plus Code: 9C7VXFXP+7P

Entry Name: Dunbar Station, Station Road, Dunbar

Listing Name: Station Road, Dunbar Railway Station and Station Lodge

Listing Date: 11 January 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 360954

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24857

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dunbar, Station Road, Dunbar Station
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ID on this website: 200360954

Location: Dunbar

County: East Lothian

Town: Dunbar

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Railway station

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Description

1845. 2-storey station with single storey waiting room; Tudor
style. Rubble snecked and squared; Catcraig ashlar dressings,
droved but over-cleaned. Bold gable copings of Catcraig stone
with moulded flues now cut down. Originally 12-pane sashes
throughout, some modern glazing.
N FRONT: projecting window panel ground floor at centre of
projecting gabled bay. Altered and obscured to right by
modern porch. Hoodmoulded windows on ground floor. 2 1st
floor windows with gabled heads.
Platform elevation rendered and lined as ashlar; fretted
canopies, originally with glass lights. Goods shed to E.
Cast-iron columns with boarded infill on brick plinth
(modern). Timber eaves brackets.

Statement of Interest

Site apparently that of Cromwell's camp (Groome). Land

purchased by the North British Railway Company from the Earl

of Lauderdale circa 1844. Iron footbridge demolished 1979,

made by Macfarlane and bought from Ayton Berwickshire.

Original twin lodges, one demolished.

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