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Port Seton House, 126 High Street, Cockenzie

A Category C Listed Building in Preston, Seton and Gosford, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9719 / 55°58'18"N

Longitude: -2.9575 / 2°57'26"W

OS Eastings: 340337

OS Northings: 675847

OS Grid: NT403758

Mapcode National: GBR 2K.WMJD

Mapcode Global: WH7TV.J5W6

Plus Code: 9C7VX2CV+Q2

Entry Name: Port Seton House, 126 High Street, Cockenzie

Listing Name: 126-128 (Even Nos) High Street, Port Seton House with Boundary Wall and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 5 December 1977

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358780

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB23030

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200358780

Location: Cockenzie and Portseton

County: East Lothian

Town: Cockenzie And Portseton

Electoral Ward: Preston, Seton and Gosford

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Early 19th century. Symmetrical and plain 2-storey, 6-bay building forming pair of houses, with basement and modern extension to rear. Random rubble to rear, otherwise brown harled with painted margins.

S (FRONT) ELEVATION: each house with central door, plain boarded with 5-pane fanlight, flanked by window to each side, 3 windows to first floor.

N ELEVATION: W house with 3 windows to ground floor, above central door and small window in outer bay to basement, 2 windows to 1st floor in outer bays. E house with 1 window at ground in inner bay flanking modern extension to E, 3 windows to 1st floor.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: tiny attic window in each gablehead.

Windows timber sash and case, 12-pane in W house, 4-pane in E house. Roof in ungraded Welsh slate, plain skews. Stacks at gables and centre ridge, thackstanes, harled with plain copes and 4 plain cans to each.

BOUNDARY WALL: harl pointed rubble W squared rubble coping turning to ashlar by squared piers with domed caps.

Statement of Interest

G Bogie states that Port Seton House was built in 1709 as a bathing station for the Seton family. If so, this was an earlier structure on the same site as the current house.

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