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Cattle Courts To Se, Longniddry Farm, Longniddry

A Category B Listed Building in Gladsmuir, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9736 / 55°58'25"N

Longitude: -2.8918 / 2°53'30"W

OS Eastings: 344439

OS Northings: 675984

OS Grid: NT444759

Mapcode National: GBR 2M.WQ83

Mapcode Global: WH7TW.K35W

Plus Code: 9C7VX4F5+C7

Entry Name: Cattle Courts To Se, Longniddry Farm, Longniddry

Listing Name: Longniddry Farm Steading

Listing Date: 27 January 1993

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346178

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13160

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Longniddry, Longniddry Farm, Cattle Courts To Se

ID on this website: 200346178

Location: Gladsmuir

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Preston, Seton and Gosford

Parish: Gladsmuir

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Farmstead

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Description

Late 18th century, with mid 19th century additions. Large e-plan steading, with mill and sluice to centre; farmhouse, stables, cartshed and granary to W, cattle courts to E. Random rubble with droved or stugged ashlar dressings.

STABLES: single storey range aligned N-S; doorways with windows to left, some enlarged openings with wooden sliding doors.

CARTSHED AND GRANARY: 2-storey, 6-bay, free-standing; 5 segmental arches at ground and door to outer right. 6 openings at 1st floor; 2 doorways at centre flanked by 2 windows, 1/2 glazed and louvred. Stone forestair to S gable to 1st floor, breaking eaves in piend roof.

MILL, THRESHING BARN AND GRANARY: late 18th century with 1850s additions; overshot waterwheel circa 1850 housed below ground level in 2-storey mill; doorway to S lintel inscribed 1850. Threshing barn to S, 2-storey range to E with granary at 1st floor. Grey slates to Mill and Threshing barn.

SLUICE AND MILL LADE: lade entering rubble-walled garden to S over sluice, to mill under segmentally arched bridge carrying roadway.

CATTLE COURTS* TO E of Mill, entered by depresssed arch-gabled pend. 4 piend roofed cattle courts to W terminating in gabled range with low interconnecting arches, cast-iron columns, stone feeding troughs, timber hay-hecks. Red pantiles, some corrugated iron, ashlar coped skews.

Statement of Interest

Plans illustrate agricultural improvement in Longniddry instigated by the Wemyss Estate, with the building of the mill, lade and sluice between 1778 and 1798 replacing smallholdings on the site. Low arches within cattle courts similar to those at Beanston Farm. Prestonhill; also part of the Wemyss Estate, mid-late 18th century.

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