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Latitude: 55.9599 / 55°57'35"N
Longitude: -2.6416 / 2°38'29"W
OS Eastings: 360037
OS Northings: 674281
OS Grid: NT600742
Mapcode National: GBR 2Y.XDH0
Mapcode Global: WH8W4.DG9F
Plus Code: 9C7VX955+X8
Entry Name: Schoolhouse, Luggate Burn
Listing Name: Luggate Burn, Old School House and Former School
Listing Date: 27 November 1990
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351456
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17509
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200351456
Location: Whittingehame
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Parish: Whittingehame
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
William Burn, 1831. Gabled single storey attic school
house and single storey school room adjoined. Squared,
stugged and coursed red and pink sandstone, with
droved, chamfered reveals. Deeply overhanging eaves.
W ELEVATION: asymmetrical 3-bay. Narrow entrance block
at centre, with flush-panelled door, intercepted to right
by broader advanced gabled bay, doorway in N
re-entrant. Timber mullioned bipartites to outer ground
floor windows, single in attic, that at left breaking eaves
in gabled dormerhead.
S ELEVATION: prominent advanced set-off stack cutting
eaves. Single windows to both floors to right, with
gabled dormerhead.
SCHOOL: rectangular plan school-room adjoined to SE
corner of school house, with 3 large windows to W;
gabled porch projecting from S end of school-room at E
side, with doorway to W.
Plate glass sash and case windows to school house,
6-pane to school-room. Large grey slates. Variety of coped
single, paired and triples diamond stacks. Small ball
finials.
One of 3 cottages built at Luggate Burn, commissioned by
James Balfour to replace the focus of the earlier, ruinous
focus of village of Whittingehame. Site by the burn was
controversial the ground being liable to flooding. The
3 buildings form an attractive and historically important
group.
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