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Latitude: 55.9716 / 55°58'17"N
Longitude: -2.9576 / 2°57'27"W
OS Eastings: 340327
OS Northings: 675809
OS Grid: NT403758
Mapcode National: GBR 2K.WTPZ
Mapcode Global: WH7TV.J5TG
Plus Code: 9C7VX2CR+JW
Entry Name: 10 Elcho Place, High Street, Cockenzie
Listing Name: 1-15 (Inclusive Nos) Elcho Place
Listing Date: 5 December 1977
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 358791
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB23031
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200358791
Location: Cockenzie and Portseton
County: East Lothian
Town: Cockenzie And Portseton
Electoral Ward: Preston, Seton and Gosford
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1882. Near-symmetrical terrace of 15 houses in stylised late-Gothic. 2-storey blocks interspersed by cottages in single storey with attic. Squared and snecked sandstone rubble, dressings stugged, droved and chamfered.
N (FRONT) ELEVATION: symmetrical sequence of cottage fronts. 3 centre houses (Nos 7, 8, 9) in 2-storey crowstepped tri-gable front with door and 4-light mullioned and transomed window to ground floor, same window foreshortened to 1st floor with hood moulding. End houses (nos 1, 15) in similar style with 5-light ground floor window, 4-light above. Other houses intermediate in 2 groups of 5, single-storey and attic, each with door and tripartite window, reversed plans to pair doors and windows, single timber tripartite dormers above gabled with bargeboards. Slight alterations eg no 5 rendered; no 11 with small open porch.
E AND W (END) ELEVATIONS: door to end cottages in forward bay. E end with single window to rear at ground, 1 small tripartite window central on 1st floor; W end with 2 bipartite windows flanking door, 1 single window to rear bay, 1 bipartite window above with crowstepped dormerhead breaking eaves.
S (REAR) ELEVATION: much altered and undistinguished. Of original fabric, crowstepped features and small dormers complement front features, also low hipped outshots.
Doors originally plain boarded with bipartite fanlight, many altered. Windows timber sash and case, originally 4-pane over 1, many altered. Roofs in Welsh slate. Stacks symmetrical on ridge, originals in snecked rubble with cavetto cope and 6 plain cans.
Constructed as model housing for fishermen by the Wemyss Estate, contemporary with the grander Wemyss Place adjacent. Lord Wemyss was a benefactor of the local fishing industry, having contributed to the construction of the adjacent Port Seton Harbour, opened in 1880 by Lady Elcho (later Countess of Wemyss).
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