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Chesterhill House

A Category B Listed Building in Humbie, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.843 / 55°50'34"N

Longitude: -2.8697 / 2°52'11"W

OS Eastings: 345634

OS Northings: 661428

OS Grid: NT456614

Mapcode National: GBR 80DW.H9

Mapcode Global: WH7VG.WDMJ

Plus Code: 9C7VR4VJ+54

Entry Name: Chesterhill House

Listing Name: Chesterhill House with Retaining Walls, Quadrants and Gatepiers

Listing Date: 5 February 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 345839

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12904

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200345839

Location: Humbie

County: East Lothian

Electoral Ward: Haddington and Lammermuir

Parish: Humbie

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Mid to later 18th century, 2-storey and attic, classically detailed house almost doubled in size in early 19th century by addition at rear; modern addition to L-plan single storey service block. Rubble, painted ashlar dressings and white painted harling.

W ELEVATION: 5-bay, symmetrical. Corniced doorway at centre with keystone and rounded corners to lintel. decorative fanlight. Window to each flanking bay at ground and to each bay at 1st floor, under eaves; rusticated quoins. 2 20th century gabled bipartite dormers.

E ELEVATION: later addition with irregular openings, shouldered wallheadstack and lean-to service buildings at right angles to left.

S ELEVATION: French door inserted to right of original house with 1st floor window above; later block slightly recessed, with window and modern conservatory at ground, 1st floor bipartite and attic window at centre. SERVICE BLOCK: piend roofed with swept slate-hung dormers and later alterations. 12-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Ashlar coped skews and moulded coping and dressings to end stacks. Grey slates. RETAINING WALLS, QUADRANTS AND GATEPIERS: rubble retaining walls with semi-circular coping; 2 sets of quadrants in same materials and square, coped gatepiers in squared rubble. Simple wrought-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

Archibald Broun of Johnstounburn, allegedly spent so much on the latter mansion in the mid 19th century, that he lived the remainder of his life at Chesterhill.

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