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Latitude: 56.0029 / 56°0'10"N
Longitude: -2.6283 / 2°37'41"W
OS Eastings: 360917
OS Northings: 679064
OS Grid: NT609790
Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.TX1G
Mapcode Global: WH8VY.LCNY
Plus Code: 9C8V293C+5M
Entry Name: 4-5 Widows Row, Tyninghame
Listing Name: Tyninghame, Main Street, 1-5 (Inclusive Nos) Widows Row
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347991
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14597
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200347991
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, circa 1840, incorporating earlier
cottages. Group of 5 single storey 3-bay cottages
arranged in U-plan, mirrored about centre. Squared and
snecked pink rubble with stugged ashlar dressings.
STREET ELEVATION: detached cottage at centre (No 3) with
pilastered doorpiece bearing weathered inscription
"Rebuilt 1840" and with gable head breaking eaves above;
ashlar skews. Bipartites flanking. 2 cottages to either
side arranged in semi-detached L-plans. Stone
bracketted slab canopies to doorways; flanking
bipartites. Additional window inserted in re-entrant
angle of No 1.
REAR ELEVATIONS: irregular openings, some altered with
rendered margins.
SIDE ELEVATIONS: similarly irregular openings.
4-pane glazing pattern with timber mullions to
bipartites. Raised skews; ashlar stacks with
thackstanes. Pantiles.
Poorhouses existed at Tyninghame pre 1745 and the circa
1840 work improved their form for inclusion in the
estate village. Eaves line follows falling ground
notably at Nos 2 and 4.
B Group with Items 15-17, 28-36, 39.
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