Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

DIRLETON VILLAGE, MANSE ROAD, SWISS COTTAGELB1344

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
07/12/1988
Local Authority
East Lothian
Planning Authority
East Lothian
Parish
Dirleton
NGR
NT 51374 83937
Coordinates
351374, 683937

Description

Earlier to mid-19th century. 2-storey house with single

storey rear projection. Red squared and snecked rubble

with ashlar dressings, chamfered at openings.

S ELEVATION: forestair with gablet coped, arcaded

balustrade and polygonal, pyramid coped columns at foot.

Bracketted timber porch with decorative pendant barge

boarding and slated roof. Lattice section to E of porch.

Arched slit below on forestair, 4-centred arched floor

under stair to E, with panelled door. Gabled bay

flanking doorway to left with 2 small windows. Blank

outer bay to right. Single storey projection to left with

2 segmentally arched windows breaking eaves in gabled

dormer heads.

N ELEVATION: advanced gabled bay to right with raised,

battered stack. Recessed bay to left with lower eaves

level and similar raised stack.

E ELEVATION: tripartite openings at centre of gabled

elevation, shallow canted ashlar oriel on decorative

console supports at 1st floor with overhanging stone

piend roof.

INTERIOR: originally 2 cottages, one above and one below,

now combined.

Variety of glazing patterns, plate glass sash and case to

main windows. Grey slates. Deeply overhanging eaves

with timber brackets to E gable. Diamond stacks to N.

Gablet coping to skews with ball finials to apeces and

consoled skewputts.

Statement of Special Interest

"Swiss" only through its eaves. Probably an earlier 19th

century cottage added to and altered later. Detail common

to Dirleton in the form of gablet skews, evidence in Old

Manse to N and Castle Inn to S. Similar to design in

London's "COTTAGE, FARM AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE", 1842, by

E B Lamb "A Villa in the Swiss Style" p 1195).

References

Bibliography

C McWilliam LOTHIAN 1978 p177.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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