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Central Cottage, Pitcox

A Category B Listed Building in Stenton, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9687 / 55°58'7"N

Longitude: -2.5755 / 2°34'31"W

OS Eastings: 364173

OS Northings: 675228

OS Grid: NT641752

Mapcode National: GBR ND0Y.6TB

Mapcode Global: WH8W5.D7SN

Plus Code: 9C7VXC9F+FQ

Entry Name: Central Cottage, Pitcox

Listing Name: 2 and 3 Pitcox Cottages, (Gardener's and Shepherds)

Listing Date: 2 May 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 348261

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14797

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Pitcox, Central Cottage

ID on this website: 200348261

Location: Stenton

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Parish: Stenton

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Circa 1860. Single storey, symmetrical pair of cottages
incorporating fabric of earlier buildings, and originally
designed as 3. Squared and snecked, stugged pink rubble
with ashlar dressings chamfered arrises, segmental lintels
to openings.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: each 3-bay. Bracketted gabled
canopy to door at centre; 2-pane fanlight and boarded
door; windows in flanking bays.
E ELEVATION: 5-bay. 3 windows to centre bays; slightly
advanced, gabled outer bays with hoodmoulded bipartite
windows and square blank panels in apex.
W ELEVATION: 5-bay. Gabled porch advanced at centre,
with doorways on return sides and window to W.
Windows in flanking bays; advanced outer bays gabled
with single windows.
6-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Timber
eaves brackets and decorative brackets and barge
boarding to door canopies. Purple slates. Coped ridge
stacks.

Statement of Interest

Signs of earlier masonry evident on cottages, which assume

site of those on 1854 OS map. Partially terraced gardens on

ground falling to E, with rubble coped rubble retaining

walls.

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