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Garden, Pinkie House, High Street, Musselburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Musselburgh, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9427 / 55°56'33"N

Longitude: -3.0431 / 3°2'35"W

OS Eastings: 334944

OS Northings: 672676

OS Grid: NT349726

Mapcode National: GBR 2G.YL8X

Mapcode Global: WH7TT.7W4M

Plus Code: 9C7RWXV4+3Q

Entry Name: Garden, Pinkie House, High Street, Musselburgh

Listing Name: High Street Pinkie House Walled Garden

Listing Date: 22 January 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 383548

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38317

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200383548

Location: Musselburgh

County: East Lothian

Town: Musselburgh

Electoral Ward: Musselburgh

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

Early 17th century walled garden to east side of house,

surrounded by high sandstone rubble wall with ridged coping. Semi-octagonal garden house projects on outer side of east

wall, with finialled gable to garden, architraved doorway

with sculptured cartouche containing rectangular inscription panel set in colonnettes with sculptured capitals. Renaissance gateways in east and north walls, architraved and corniced. That on east wall has Jacobean pediment bearing an obelisk and the ages of Seton, 57, on the inside and his wife, 21, on the outer face.

An obelisk sundial stands on the north wall on a corniced

pedestal block with moulded base.

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