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Police Station, 2 Bridge Street, East Linton

A Category B Listed Building in East Linton, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9855 / 55°59'7"N

Longitude: -2.6557 / 2°39'20"W

OS Eastings: 359187

OS Northings: 677136

OS Grid: NT591771

Mapcode National: GBR 2X.VWVK

Mapcode Global: WH8VY.5TNB

Plus Code: 9C7VX8PV+5P

Entry Name: Police Station, 2 Bridge Street, East Linton

Listing Name: 2 Bridge Street Old Polling Station

Listing Date: 28 March 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363301

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26642

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: East Linton, 2 Bridge Street, Police Station

ID on this website: 200363301

Location: East Linton

County: East Lothian

Town: East Linton

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Police station

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Description

Circa 1830. 2-storey, 3-bay Jacobean-style house with
modern additions at side and rear. Squared, coursed and
stugged yellow sandstone with ashlar dressings; string
course, eaves course, chamfered reveals and hoodmoulds
to openings, stone mullions.
S ELEVATION: entrance to gabled and advanced centre
bay. Doorway with 4-pane fanlight, bipartite at
1st floor, blank shield above. Bipartites to flanking
bays in ground and 1st floor; hoodmoulds removed.
W ELEVATION: 2-bay, single light windows to each bay at
ground and 1st floor. Lying-pane glazing pattern to sash
and case windows.
Purple slates, gablet coped skews with consoled
skewputts. Corbelled paired polygonal, corniced end
stacks, 1 similar stack to central S gable with decorative
frieze.
Mixed rubble retaining wall with gablet coping.

Statement of Interest

Formerly the police and polling station, currently Ark

sheltered housing. Almost identical to St Michael's Lodge,

Easter Pencaitland, 1831, which is single pile and lacks

string course. May suggest work of J McEwen, mason at

Winton House.

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