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Ormesdene, 38 Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick

A Category B Listed Building in North Berwick, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0569 / 56°3'25"N

Longitude: -2.7416 / 2°44'29"W

OS Eastings: 353915

OS Northings: 685147

OS Grid: NT539851

Mapcode National: GBR 2T.QG01

Mapcode Global: WH7TK.V1P0

Plus Code: 9C8V3745+Q9

Entry Name: Ormesdene, 38 Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick

Listing Name: 38 Dirleton Avenue, Ormesdene and Summer House and Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 26 May 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384139

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38716

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384139

Location: North Berwick

County: East Lothian

Town: North Berwick

Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Circa 1900. 2-storey villa. Red ashlar base course; harled above. Painted margins and 1st floor cill course. Applied timber framing to gable heads. Plate glass glazing to casement windows with lead-paning above transomes. Some small-pane sash and case windows.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Angle turret to left angle with multi-light rows at ground and first floor with cone roof above. Large round arched recessed porchway off-centre to right. Tripartite doorway with double-leaf door, round arched lights and segmental fanlight. 4-light above and 3-lights in flanking bay left. Canted outer bay to right with multi-lights and jettied gable head.

W ELEVATION: recessed bays to left with angle turret to right (as above). Canted multi-light bay at centre to left of advanced wing.

N ELEVATION: advanced bays to left with large gabled dormer. Stair window raised in re-entrant angle at centre.

E ELEVATION: blank outer bays with lower eaves to right; irregular windows at centre.

Coped ashlar stacks. Red plain tiled roof with overhanging eaves.

INTERIOR: some outstanding features. Lugged panel with waved pediment above over hall fireplace bearing scenic oil paintings by P W Adam. Lugged, moulded door surrounds. Fine chimneypieces.

SUMMER HOUSE: brick, gabled pavilion with applied timber framing to gable heads. 3-bay, rectangular plan. Projecting timber loggia with depressed centre archway and small-paned round-headed windows flanking.

Rubble boundary wall to N and W.

Statement of Interest

Architects possibly Peddie and Washington Browne or Dunn and Findlay. Formerly ivy-clad with hooks still embedded in harling. Decorative weathervane to turret.

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