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Latitude: 56.0036 / 56°0'12"N
Longitude: -2.6283 / 2°37'41"W
OS Eastings: 360913
OS Northings: 679136
OS Grid: NT609791
Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.TPG6
Mapcode Global: WH8VY.LCMF
Plus Code: 9C8V293C+CM
Entry Name: The Old Schoolhouse, Tyninghame
Listing Name: Tyninghame, Main Street, the Old School House
Listing Date: 17 May 1989
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347983
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14593
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200347983
Location: Whitekirk and Tyninghame
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Parish: Whitekirk And Tyninghame
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Thomas Hannan, 1836, 2-storey house with single storey L-plan
school adjoining, enlarged 1852. Random rubble, heavily
pointed with droved ashlar dressings.
S ELEVATION: 3-bay house with broad, advanced gabled outer
bay to right. Decoratively boarded gabled porch with barge-
boarding and small-pane windows set in re-entrant angle at
centre. Tall ground floor windows with marginally smaller 1st
floor window with dormer.
N ELEVATION: single storey school projecting at right;
gabled bay left. School wing of 5 bays. 3 tall windows
to centre and left, and window to right blocked door in
4th bay. Former gabled wing adjoined at right angles to
outer right, converted as garage.
W ELEVATION: gabled wing of house to right with ground
and 1st floor windows. Advanced gabled wing of single
storey school to left with tall window to right and on S
return and with lean-to porch adjoined to left.
E ELEVATION: blank with ashlar wallhead stack.
12-pane glazing to school house and 24-pane to large
school windows in sash and case. Grey slates. Ashlar
coped skews.
SCHOOL INTERIOR: 2 large school rooms with coombed
ceilings, double doors and some boarded dado.
Served as school until circa 1965. Above ground floor
window on N courtyard side of house on lintel is
painted "cheese room".
B Group with Items 15-17, 28-32, 34-37, 39.
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