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8 Seafield Crescent, Edinburgh Road, Belhaven

A Category B Listed Building in Dunbar, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9982 / 55°59'53"N

Longitude: -2.5409 / 2°32'27"W

OS Eastings: 366362

OS Northings: 678497

OS Grid: NT663784

Mapcode National: GBR ND2V.YHL

Mapcode Global: WH8VZ.YH7J

Plus Code: 9C7VXFX5+7M

Entry Name: 8 Seafield Crescent, Edinburgh Road, Belhaven

Listing Name: Belhaven, Edinburgh Road, Seafield Crescent

Listing Date: 11 January 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 360791

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24740

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200360791

Location: Dunbar

County: East Lothian

Town: Dunbar

Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

J A W Grant, Edinburgh. 1939. Symmetrical crescent of 3
linked blocks comprising 10, 2-storey council houses of Arts
and Crafts style. 9 of 3 apartments, one of 4. Harled.
12-pane glazing pattern. Steeply pitched slate roofs, swept
at eaves. Harled ridge stacks. Original doors retained with
small upper panels.
MAIN TERRACE S FRONT: 9 recessed bays with central arched,
voussoired pend. Tripartites in ground floor flanking paired
doors. Gabled dormer heads to 1st floor, breaking eaves with
small 4-pane lights under eaves, above door. Advanced gabled
ends each with 2 ground floor and single 1st floor windows.
Simple rear elevation with continuous roof. 1st floor windows
breaking eaves under swept roofs.
PAVILIONS: linked to curved terrace by mutual single storey
porches and covered pend. L-plan, with 3-bays to the green.
Similar detailing. Outer gables with asymmetrical openings.

Statement of Interest

Unusual and late essay in crescent form. Sited E of Bleaching

Field and former Seafield Brickworks, from which its name

derived.

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