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Walled Garden, Windygates, Windygates Road, North Berwick

A Category B Listed Building in North Berwick, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0532 / 56°3'11"N

Longitude: -2.7289 / 2°43'44"W

OS Eastings: 354698

OS Northings: 684727

OS Grid: NT546847

Mapcode National: GBR 2T.QQVL

Mapcode Global: WH7TL.13SV

Plus Code: 9C8V373C+7C

Entry Name: Walled Garden, Windygates, Windygates Road, North Berwick

Listing Name: Windygates Road, Windygates, with Glass House, Walled Garden, Quadrants

Listing Date: 26 May 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384253

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38792

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384253

Location: North Berwick

County: East Lothian

Town: North Berwick

Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Kinnear and Peddie, 1893. 2-storey and attic house. Fine texture harl with red sandstone ashlar dressings.

N ELEVATION: pedimented porch with corniced doorway and panelled door off-centre to left, tripartite flanking to right. 3 semi-circular and waved pediments breaking eaves at 1st floor. Projecting outer bays with 6-lights at ground; jettied 5-lights above with timber brackets. 2 swept-roofed 2-light dormers at centre.

S ELEVATION: complex elevation with variety of bay treatment; irregular windows, including large stair window.

E ELEVATION: adjoined by service court with projecting outbuilding to left and walls recently reduced to right. Gateway to E.

W ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to left with advanced penticed roof tripartite window at ground; attic window. Canted window in re-entrant angle to right with 3-lights and half-piended roof. Pedimented 1st floor window to right.

Variety of glazing patterns. Plate glass sash windows with some diamond paned upper panels, casements and stair window. Lead-paned oriel to S. Small-pane casements to S dormers. Crowstepped gables. Harled stacks with moulded copings. Red plain tiles and tile-hanging to dormers. brass lion weathervane to W gable.

INTERIOR: period features retained.

WALLED GARDEN: rectangular plan, brick-walled garden to SW of house.

GLASSHOUSE: to N of walled garden, contemporary with house; MacKenzie and Moncur. Brick base, E-plan glasshouse with decorative wrought-iron finials. Cast and wrought-iron interior details; cogged window mechanisms.

Terraced garden to N with stone steps and urn finials.

QUADRANT AND BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rubble quadrant walls to N gateway with cone finials to drum-piers. Brick boundary wall, stepping down site.

Statement of Interest

Commissioned for Thomas Esson, Lawyer. The grounds were landscaped and the precipitous site redesigned for the foundations. An army of gardeners tended the area and fine topiary. A lodge to the SW on the Grange Road, and garages to SE were built to complement the house.

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