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Latitude: 56.0545 / 56°3'16"N
Longitude: -2.7302 / 2°43'48"W
OS Eastings: 354618
OS Northings: 684867
OS Grid: NT546848
Mapcode National: GBR 2T.QJKC
Mapcode Global: WH7TL.125W
Plus Code: 9C8V3739+QW
Entry Name: Glenorchy, 1 Glenorchy Road, North Berwick
Listing Name: 15 Glenorchy Road. Glenorchy, with Boundary Walls and Gateways
Listing Date: 26 May 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384148
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38722
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: North Berwick, 1 Glenorchy Road, Glenorchy
ID on this website: 200384148
Location: North Berwick
County: East Lothian
Town: North Berwick
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Villa
T Duncan Rhind, 1897. 2-storey villa with alterations, 1930, set in slope, bold design with battered basement. Squared and snecked red sandstone rubble; droved ashlar dressings; 4 courses of contrasting cream sandstone banding between ground and 1st floors to front and sides, now stained red.
N ELEVATION: asymmetrical, wide gabled advanced bay at left. Doorway (1930) with decorative wrought-iron grille to upper panel. Full-height round tower in re-entrant angle at centre with arrow slit at centre of parapet; moulded 1st floor cill and lintel courses. Transomed tripartite at ground, simplified at 1st floor. Projecting basement and raised ground floor window to right.
E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: stone balustraded stairs lead to terrace with rubble walls fronting entrance. Doorway with consoled timber canopy set in roll-moulded surround; segmentally arched fanlight and panelled door with glazed upper panels. Variety of windows some mullioned.
S ELEVATION: set in slope. Irregular openings including stair window.
W ELEVATION: garage doorway to basement (1930). Variety of windows.
Chamfered arrises to main openings. Variety of glazing patterns. 4-pane and plate glass sash windows predominating decorative gutter heads. Timber eaves brackets. Broad, narrow stack between turret and gable to N with deep ashlar coping. Small double roll clay pantiles.
Rubble boundary walls: low parapet to N with semi-circular coping, sweeping up at intervals to coped piers. Glenorchy incised in right gatepier. Back gateway in Arts and Crafts style with voussoir, segmentally arched overflow and coping.
James MacLaren's design for a Studio House, 1877, bears similar powerful verticality. No outstanding interior features. Commissioned by John MacGregor of Leith.
List description amended 2009: formerly listed incorrectly as statutory address 1 Glenorchy Road.
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