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Latitude: 55.9585 / 55°57'30"N
Longitude: -2.9889 / 2°59'20"W
OS Eastings: 338354
OS Northings: 674385
OS Grid: NT383743
Mapcode National: GBR 2J.XLF9
Mapcode Global: WH7TV.1HZH
Plus Code: 9C7VX256+CC
Entry Name: Walford, 228 High Street, Prestonpans
Listing Name: 228 High Street (Walford) with Garden Walls and N Gateway
Listing Date: 5 December 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386240
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40323
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200386240
Location: Prestonpans
County: East Lothian
Town: Prestonpans
Electoral Ward: Preston, Seton and Gosford
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: House
Dated 1757, addition to E circa 1870 plus later small extension to S. 2-storey with garret, original house symmetrical 3-bay with large squat dormers on both elevations. Generally coursed or snecked rubble, variegated sandstone in original house, mostly red sandstone in addition. Addition with smooth dressings and rounded chamfers.
N ELEVATION: original house symmetrical 3-bay. To ground, central doorway with moulded surround, modern door and plain fanlight, flanked by 2 windows with simple moulded surrounds. To 1st floor, 3 large windows with simple moulded surrounds. Dormer to garret with single modern window in original (?) moulded surround. 1870s addition to N slightly recessed, plain door to ground floor flanked by 2 windows, single bipartite window to 1st floor.
S ELEVATION: original house symmetrical 3-bay. To ground, flat-roofed bathroom extension obscures original doorway, flanked by 2 windows with simple moulded surrounds. 3 windows to 1st floor with simple moulded surrounds. Dormer to garret with 2 symmetrical windows, moulded surrounds, separated by empty plaque. 1870s addition to N projects in large bow with conical roof, 3 windows to each floor.
E ELEVATION: broad gable (all 1870s) with irregular features. 2 windows to ground, 3 to 1st floor, central corbelled empty niche at upper level. NE corner wall corbelled at 1st floor level.
Windows timber sash and case (except 10-pane casement on S dormer), 12-pane on original house, mostly 6 or 9-pane on addition. Roof in graded grey slate, plain skew to W gable, unusual raised and curvilinear skew to E gable. 2 stacks on original house in coursed rubble, plain cope and 4 plain cans to each.
INTERIOR: original house has hall running from N to S sides with
3 elliptical arches on pilasters. Winding stair to upper storey.
Most rooms with 18th century cornices, chimneypieces and 6-panelled doors, cellar on N side. 1870s addition with stained glass by J A S Salmon.
N GATEWAY: red sandstone ashlar. 2 square-section gatepiers and cavetto cornice and ball finial, the westmost fallen and broken. Pedestrian gateway to W adjoining house topped by carved inscription "Walford". Doors lined and braced.
GARDEN WALLS: enclosing garden to S and E. High wall in eroded sandstone with decorative coping in mortared lava fragments. Sealed doorway in S wall with eroded moulded surround.
Garden walls may well predate the existing house. The lava coping feature is similar to that at nearby Cockenzie House (Cockenzie and Port Seton Burgh). Listed for interest of S elevation and walls.
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