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Latitude: 56.0569 / 56°3'25"N
Longitude: -2.7416 / 2°44'29"W
OS Eastings: 353915
OS Northings: 685147
OS Grid: NT539851
Mapcode National: GBR 2T.QG01
Mapcode Global: WH7TK.V1P0
Plus Code: 9C8V3745+Q9
Entry Name: Ormesdene, 38 Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick
Listing Name: 38 Dirleton Avenue, Ormesdene and Summer House and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 26 May 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384139
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38716
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: North Berwick, 38 Dirleton Avenue, Ormesdene
ID on this website: 200384139
Location: North Berwick
County: East Lothian
Town: North Berwick
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1900. 2-storey villa. Red ashlar base course; harled above. Painted margins and 1st floor cill course. Applied timber framing to gable heads. Plate glass glazing to casement windows with lead-paning above transomes. Some small-pane sash and case windows.
S ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Angle turret to left angle with multi-light rows at ground and first floor with cone roof above. Large round arched recessed porchway off-centre to right. Tripartite doorway with double-leaf door, round arched lights and segmental fanlight. 4-light above and 3-lights in flanking bay left. Canted outer bay to right with multi-lights and jettied gable head.
W ELEVATION: recessed bays to left with angle turret to right (as above). Canted multi-light bay at centre to left of advanced wing.
N ELEVATION: advanced bays to left with large gabled dormer. Stair window raised in re-entrant angle at centre.
E ELEVATION: blank outer bays with lower eaves to right; irregular windows at centre.
Coped ashlar stacks. Red plain tiled roof with overhanging eaves.
INTERIOR: some outstanding features. Lugged panel with waved pediment above over hall fireplace bearing scenic oil paintings by P W Adam. Lugged, moulded door surrounds. Fine chimneypieces.
SUMMER HOUSE: brick, gabled pavilion with applied timber framing to gable heads. 3-bay, rectangular plan. Projecting timber loggia with depressed centre archway and small-paned round-headed windows flanking.
Rubble boundary wall to N and W.
Architects possibly Peddie and Washington Browne or Dunn and Findlay. Formerly ivy-clad with hooks still embedded in harling. Decorative weathervane to turret.
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