Description

Later 19th century. Two-storey terrace composed of five houses and a larger pavilioned house at northwest. Squared and snecked rubble with stugged ashlar dressings.

NORTHEAST ELEVATION: 10 paired bays with advanced gabled wide end bays. Bipartites at first floor of gables.

SOUTHWEST ELEVATION: advanced gabled end bay to left, gabled outer bay to right. Projecting piend roofed paired porch bays.

NORTHWEST ELEVATION: three-bay. Gabled porch at centre, entered from northeast side with voussoired arched, sash windows. Blind windows to left bay.

SOUTHEAST ELEVATION: blank.

Four-pane and plate glass sash windows with 12-pane sashes to southwest elevation. Slate roof. Moulded coped ridge stacks. Straight skews.

LIFEBOAT HOUSE/ROCKET APPARATUS HOUSE: later 19th century. Sited to southeast of cottages. Squared snecked rubble with stugged ashlar dressings; grey slates. Gables entrance bay with raised skews and bracketted skewputts.

Statement of Interest

Identified as a Lifeboat House at the time of listing, the small building to the east of the coastguard cottages was built in 1886 as a Rocket Apparatus House (Haddingtonshire Courier). This housed the cart and equipment required to launch rescue 'carrying lines' to a shipwreck. The volunteer 'Rocketeers' were part of HM Coast Guard. In the event of an emergency, they fired a rocket with a thin wire over the distressed vessel. The line was then secured and a thicker rope attached to allow crew to be pulled ashore (North Berwick.org). There are later tenements to the east of the Rocket Apparatus House and the run to the sea is now blocked by the sea wall.

Statement of Special Interest and References section updated following information received from a member of the public (2025).

External Links

• Wikidata Q56644610

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)