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Latitude: 56.0553 / 56°3'19"N
Longitude: -2.7022 / 2°42'8"W
OS Eastings: 356362
OS Northings: 684938
OS Grid: NT563849
Mapcode National: GBR 2V.QJVY
Mapcode Global: WH7TL.G2F8
Plus Code: 9C8V374X+44
Entry Name: Abbots Croft, North Berwick
Listing Name: Abbots Croft with Gates and Lodge
Listing Date: 26 May 1988
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384124
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38705
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384124
Location: North Berwick
County: East Lothian
Town: North Berwick
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: House
Peddie and Washington Browne, 1904. 2-storey, symmetrical Neo-Georgian house. Random rubble Law stone with ashlar dressings. Dentil eaves course.
S ELEVATION: Doric columned doorpiece with dentilled segmentally arched pediment; keystone above double panelled doors. Bipartites flanking. Advanced, gabled outer bays with rectangular projections at ground and Venetian windows above. Single storey service block to right.
N ELEVATION: 3 bays at centre with canted 4-light bay at ground floor to centre and left. Gabled outer bays and canted side projection to outer right at ground.
Plate glass sash and case windows with decorative leaded paning to Hall. Grey slate roof. Coped stacks.
INTERIOR: Fine features retained. Latin inscription above vestibule door. Panelled rooms and window shutters.
Timber gates with decorative wrought-iron grilles above. Brass bell plaque with entwined serpent at gate. Coped rubble quadrants.
LODGE: single storey T-plan lodge with modern addition in re-entrant angle to N. Harled with ashlar cills. Central door to W elevation with flanking tripartites. Swept eaves to red plain tiled piended roof. Moulded brick stack at centre. Small-pane casement windows.
Formerly known as Fairknowe commissioned by P Hately Waddell. Built-in drawers for Lepidoptera collection in interior. Neo-Georgian style unusual for such a setting, though flourishing in England pioneered by Ernest Newton.
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