Description

Late 18th century. 2-storey 3-bay house. Painted harling with painted ashlar dressings. Bays grouped towards centre with door widened later; windows flanking and window to each bay at 1st floor. Blank gable to SW; single storey cottage adjoined to NE gables. 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews; end stacks; red pantiles.

RETAINING WALLS: high sandstone rubble retaining walls with rubble coping to N and W, on falling ground.

Statement of Interest

One of few remaining 18th century properties dating from Tranent's heyday as a mining burgh. It possibly served as the schoolmaster's house, or possibly even the school, as the 1853 OS map appears to mark the adjoining cottage as the school: if this is the case, then the high walls probably enclosed the playground.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792908

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House