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Latitude: 56.0586 / 56°3'30"N
Longitude: -2.7147 / 2°42'53"W
OS Eastings: 355587
OS Northings: 685310
OS Grid: NT555853
Mapcode National: GBR 2V.Q81N
Mapcode Global: WH7TD.8ZJ9
Plus Code: 9C8V375P+C4
Entry Name: Museum And Library, School Road, North Berwick
Listing Name: School Road, Museum and Library
Listing Date: 26 May 1988
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384225
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38772
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384225
Location: North Berwick
County: East Lothian
Town: North Berwick
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Public library Library building
1876. 2-storey, rectangular plan simple Italianate building with minor additions. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, raised cills, base and band courses.
W (front) elevation: symmetrical, 3-bay advanced at centre, breaking eaves. Thomsonesque doorpiece, arched bipartite above, bell-cote with slated pyramidal roof on voussoired arches at centre. Tripartites in outer bays with roll-moulded lintels and simply moulded architrave to ground floor lights.
SIDE ELEVATIONS: S side with 3 bays and door in deeply recessed centre bay; detailed mainly as front, and with ugly porch addition to E end. N side simple; rear addition in sympathy with scale and design. Variety of lying-pane and small-pane glazing. Slate roof; leaded flashings. Ashlar stacks.
Built as Burgh School, by Peter Whitecross and Sons. Headmasters house to N in similar style. Replaced 1894 by High School, Law Road.
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