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Whittingehame Tower Cottage

A Category C Listed Building in Whittingehame, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9501 / 55°57'0"N

Longitude: -2.6391 / 2°38'20"W

OS Eastings: 360185

OS Northings: 673191

OS Grid: NT601731

Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.Y11W

Mapcode Global: WH8W4.FPHY

Plus Code: 9C7VX926+29

Entry Name: Whittingehame Tower Cottage

Listing Name: Whittingehame Tower, Tower Cottage

Listing Date: 27 November 1990

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351440

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17501

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200351440

Location: Whittingehame

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Parish: Whittingehame

Traditional County: East Lothian

Tagged with: Estate cottage

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Description

Late 19th century, with alterations circa 1910. 2-storey
symmetrical pair of estate cottages, converted as one.
Squared and snecked red sandstone; stone mullions.
SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay. Small window at centre
with small bipartite above; doorways flanking with
small-pane upper panels. Outer bays with bipartites at
ground, and breaking eaves at 1st floor in boat-shaped
dormerheads, of circa 1910.
NW ELEVATION: 2 advanced bays at centre, with M-shaped gable
and bipartites at ground and 1st floor; string
course dividing floors. Small ground floor window to
each of outer bays.
END ELEVATIONS: small 1st floor windows flanking stack,
raised at 1st floor; moulded coping to double gatehead
stacks. Pentice roofed outbuilding adjoined to SW end
elevation. Plate glass sash and case windows and
small-pane casements. Grey slates. Skylights to S
pitch.

Statement of Interest

The boat-shaped dormerheads may well have been designed

by Eustace Balfour and/or Lawrence Turner, who apparently

carried out a series of estate works about 1910.

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