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Latitude: 55.9582 / 55°57'29"N
Longitude: -2.6089 / 2°36'32"W
OS Eastings: 362079
OS Northings: 674080
OS Grid: NT620740
Mapcode National: GBR 2Z.XMSC
Mapcode Global: WH8W4.WHVP
Plus Code: 9C7VX95R+7C
Entry Name: Old School House, Main Street, Stenton
Listing Name: Stenton, Main Street, Old School House with Retaining Walls and Gatepiers
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 348280
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14812
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200348280
Location: Stenton
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Parish: Stenton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: School building
Early 19th century, 2-storey, 3-bay house with rear
extension circa 1820. Pink sandstone rubble with droved
ashlar dressings, some painted; chamfered arrises.
with ventilation slits below and Crown above.
W ELEVATION: door at centre with small-pane fanlight;
window above and to both floors in flanking bay.
Slightly recessed stable building to outer left, piend
roofed, with door and further piend-roofed addition
projecting to W. Old School Hall adjoined to S, listed
separately.
E ELEVATION: large, piend-roofed 19th century, 2-storey
extension to centre and left, with 2 large windows to each
floor. Outer right bay of original house with window to
each floor. Doorway to stable to outer right, and
outbuilding projecting to E.
12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Slate
roofs. Ashlar coped end stacks and skews to original
house.
RETAINING WALLS: ashlar coped, coursed sandstone parapet
with decorative fleur-de-lys cast-iron railings and gate;
4 square stugged ashlar gatepiers.
Apparently the pupils from outlying areas became weekly
boarders at school, housed in a dormitory in the earlier
19th century extension.
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