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Ruchlaw Mains

A Category C Listed Building in Whittingehame, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9621 / 55°57'43"N

Longitude: -2.6175 / 2°37'2"W

OS Eastings: 361548

OS Northings: 674513

OS Grid: NT615745

Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.XCXH

Mapcode Global: WH8W4.RDSR

Plus Code: 9C7VX96M+R2

Entry Name: Ruchlaw Mains

Listing Name: Ruchlaw Mains Farmhouse, Gatepiers, Gates and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 27 November 1990

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 351471

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17520

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200351471

Location: Whittingehame

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Parish: Whittingehame

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Circa 1800. 2-storey, 3-bay farmhouse with later
additions. White painted harling with droved sandstone
dressings, painted to windows.
S ELEVATION: stugged ashlar rectangular porch with
blocking course added at centre; 2-leaf door with
small-pane fanlight. Flanking windows grouped towards
centre, with windows to each bay at 1st floor under eaves.
N ELEVATION: rectangular stairwell with catslide roof
projecting at centre; 1 window under eaves. Advanced
single storey flat-roofed addition set in re-entrant angle
to left and earlier single storey addition to right with
catslide roof. 2 1st floor windows under eaves to left of
stairwell, 1 to right.
W ELEVATION: blank with modern conservatory added.
E ELEVATION: single-storey piend-roofed addition at ground
across full width with doorway to left and irregular
windows to N elevation. 1st floor window to left of main
gable. 4-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows
of original house. Plain raised skews with coped gable
wallhead stacks. Purple slates; skylights to N pitch and
E addition.
BOUNDARY WALLS, PIERS AND GATES: high rubble boundary
walls adjoined to house at SW, linking with steading walls
to S; rubble coped rubble wall to N; harled quadrant
with ashlar coping by house to SE, with stugged square
ashlar pier. Drum piers by steading to SE with
decorative iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Ruchlaw Mains steading to S, not included in current

listing. Ruchlaw Mains was probably the home farm to

Ruchlaw House, to SE, listed separately.

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