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Pitcox Farmhouse

A Category B Listed Building in Stenton, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9694 / 55°58'9"N

Longitude: -2.5741 / 2°34'26"W

OS Eastings: 364261

OS Northings: 675301

OS Grid: NT642753

Mapcode National: GBR ND0Y.1H4

Mapcode Global: WH8W5.F7G4

Plus Code: 9C7VXC9G+Q8

Entry Name: Pitcox Farmhouse

Listing Name: Pitcox Farmhouse with Gatepiers and Retaining Walls

Listing Date: 2 May 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 348263

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14798

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200348263

Location: Stenton

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Parish: Stenton

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Farmhouse

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Description

Dated 1851. 2-storey, L-plan farmhouse. Squared red
sandstone rubble with grey ashlar dressings, stugged; base
course; chamfered arrises, stone mullions.
1st floor windows breaking eaves in gabled dormerheads
with ball finials and corbelled gablet skewputts.
S ELEVATION: 3-bay. Gabled wide outer bay to right
advanced, with bipartite windows to both floors; gabled
porch set in re-entrant angle at centre, with dated panel
in apex, boarded door with decorative hinges; bipartite
at 1st floor. Bipartite windows to each floor of outer left
bay.
W ELEVATION: 4 irregular bays. Advanced right gabled bay
with leaded piend to canted window at ground,
bipartite above; single windows to each floor of centre
bays; lower and slightly recesses left bay, similarly with
single windows. Later single storey addition to left.
Projecting, gabled service buildings set in re-entrant
angle to NE.
Small-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows.
Saw-tooth skews; moulded coping to ashlar stacks. Grey
slates.
GATEPIERS AND RETAINING WALLS: grey ashlar polygonal
gatepiers with pyramidal caps; rubble retaining walls
with semi-circular coping.

Statement of Interest

Sited on rising ground, the farmhouse dominates the group

of buildings at Pitcox. The earlier steading lies to S,

not included in current listings.

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