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Slateford

A Category C Listed Building in Haddington, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9126 / 55°54'45"N

Longitude: -2.7497 / 2°44'59"W

OS Eastings: 353231

OS Northings: 669083

OS Grid: NT532690

Mapcode National: GBR 9072.HC

Mapcode Global: WH7V4.QNS6

Plus Code: 9C7VW772+24

Entry Name: Slateford

Listing Name: Slateford

Listing Date: 12 August 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390095

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43557

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390095

Location: Haddington

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Haddington and Lammermuir

Parish: Haddington

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Dated 1863. 2-storey house, 3 bay, with Tudor details. Grey-brown sandstone rubble, coursed and snecked to front elevation, random to sides and rear, dressings broached and droved in ashlar and flush except for raised sills on gable and rear.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3 bays. Central bay advanced with deep chamfer, corbelled below eaves; door central, 4-panelled, letterbox fanlight, droved chamfered ashlar surround, hoodmoulding; 1st floor breaking eaves in tympan gable, central window, moulded skews and skewputts, crowned by small stack. Central bay flanked on E by tripartite window with hoodmoulding, to W by projecting bay window with flat roof, cornice and blocking course; 2 flanking 1st floor windows breaking eaves in gabled dormerheads with moulded skews and skewputts, dormerheads decorated with trefoil carvings.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: off-centre gabled outshot to E projects at right angle; single storey with loft, single window to W, 1 large and 1 small window to E, 1 window to loft in gable. Lean-to adjoins to W, piended, incorporating 1 window and rear door, framed and lined with tripartite fanlight. To 1st floor, 1 narrow window and 2 breaking eaves symmetrically towards gables in gabled dormerheads with moulded skews and skewputts.

E AND W ELEVATIONS (GABLES): each with 2 windows to ground floor, towards rear. Sheds/kennels adjoin to W gable, 4 doors, much altered.

Windows timber sash and case, 4-pane to front and main gables, though 2-pane when narrow, assortment of 12-pane, 9-pane, 8-pane and small 4-pane to rear. 6-pane iron stairlight on rear roofslope. Roof in graded grey Scotch slate, coped ashlar stacks, original cans octagonal decorative.

Statement of Interest

Design very similar to nearby Myreside, see separate listing.

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