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Belhaven House, Duke Street, Belhaven, Dunbar

A Category B Listed Building in Dunbar, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9992 / 55°59'56"N

Longitude: -2.5395 / 2°32'22"W

OS Eastings: 366448

OS Northings: 678598

OS Grid: NT664785

Mapcode National: GBR ND2V.RBN

Mapcode Global: WH8VZ.YGWT

Plus Code: 9C7VXFX6+M5

Entry Name: Belhaven House, Duke Street, Belhaven, Dunbar

Listing Name: Belhaven, Duke Street, Belhaven House, Lodge, Garden Arch, Entrance Gates, Piers and Walls

Listing Date: 11 January 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 360780

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24734

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dunbar, Belhaven, Duke Street, Belhaven House

ID on this website: 200360780

Location: Dunbar

County: East Lothian

Town: Dunbar

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Circa 1825. 2-storey, basement and attic 5-bay, classical
house with single storey extension to W elevation,
full-height wing to N. Sydney Mitchell and Wilson 1908.
Rendered and lined as ashlar with rusticated quoins at front;
harling at rear.
S ENTRANCE FRONT: bracketted doorpiece, later addition.
Flight of steps oversailing basement with decorative
cast-iron railings. 2 later 19th century canted, slated
dormers. 4-pane glazing pattern. Slated piend roof and end
stacks.
INTERIOR: Tripartite inner door to vestibule. Panelled
window shutters retained.
GARDEN ARCHWAY: early 20th painted brick wall and archway
with central sedant lion on undulated panel, flanked at base
by urns in red sandstone.
LODGE: Sir Robert Lorimer 1911-1912. Single storey and attic,
Arts and Crafts cottage, with 2-storey slate hung later
extension to N. Squared, snecked rubble.
W ENTRANCE: central, ogee-roofed porch resting on low rubble
walls and timber posts; flanking windows. Diminutive piended
dormer breaking eaves to E in recessed bay. Multi-pane
casement windows under swept, slate eaves, coped rubble stack
in N slope of roof.
ENTRANCE GATEWAY BY THE LODGE: square gate piers, rusticated
on road side with moulded caps and thistle finials.
Decorative wrought-iron gates with BH initials. Squared
rubble walls with semi-circular coping. Narrow gate to the
Lodge with wrought-iron gate.

Statement of Interest

A design (unexecuted) for Belhaven House occurred in

Vitruvius Scoticus.

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