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2 Preston Road, East Linton

A Category B Listed Building in East Linton, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9892 / 55°59'21"N

Longitude: -2.6581 / 2°39'29"W

OS Eastings: 359038

OS Northings: 677553

OS Grid: NT590775

Mapcode National: GBR 2X.VNRK

Mapcode Global: WH8VY.4QHH

Plus Code: 9C7VX8QR+MP

Entry Name: 2 Preston Road, East Linton

Listing Name: 2 Preston Road

Listing Date: 28 March 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 363353

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26684

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: East Linton, 2 Preston Road

ID on this website: 200363353

Location: East Linton

County: East Lothian

Town: East Linton

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Circa 1910. Single storey, L-plan Arts and Crafts
studio-villa single storey with attic, porch addition to
rear.
White painted harl, red ashlar cills.
E ELEVATION: door to centre with recessed lugged
surround and cantilevered canopy, small windows
flanking. Gabled balcony recess with semicircular
opening breaking eaves above entrance bay, decorative
timber brackets and simple balustrade, mock timber
framing at apex. Attic balcony door. Windows to outer
bays.
S ELEVATION: 6-light window to ground floor with 4 lights
to centre forming canted bay echoed in window to attic
above with cornice.
W ELEVATION: 1 window to main block, 2 windows to wing
at ground. Modern window in piend-roofed dormer to
attic in re-entrant angle.
N ELEVATION: single storey porch projection with window,
adjoining gable end with stair window. 2 windows to
wing. Multi-pane casement windows flanking E entrance,
and to S elevation. Elsewhere predominantly sash and
case with various glazing, some modern.
Red tiles overhanging eaves. Ashlar coped harled
wallhead stacks; that to N intercepting skew to right of
gablehead, to W paired diamond stacks with decorative
cornice and ashlar shoulders.

Statement of Interest

Built for Robert Noble (1857-1917) East Lothian artist,

who required balcony for asthmatic complaint. Almost

certainly by same architect as 1 Preston Road; possibly E

Auldjo Jamieson whose The Manse, Nisbet Road, Gullane has a

similar Arts and Crafts design and date.

Builders Malcolm and Laing, East Linton.

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