Field Visit
Date 4 May 1914
Event ID 1088065
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088065
About 150 yards south of the Edinburgh to Haddington high road and about 1 ¼ miles south-southwest of Preston is a fragment of a dwelling dating from the late 17th century. The structure has evidently been of considerable size with its major axis lying east and west. Only a portion of one wall remains, but this shows that the basement apartments were covered with a stone barrel vault and lit by narrow slits 5 inches wide and 2 feet high. The upper floor windows were large, and their jambs have back-set margins, indicating that the building was roughcast. The ruin stands within an area enclosed by a high wall apparently contemporary, at the north side of which is a circular Dovecot in three stages 51 feet in girth at base.
HISTORICAL NOTE. In 1680 Richard Ward (‘Ricardus Waird’) was entered as heir of his father of the same name in the barony of Dolphinstoune, formerly called ‘Colthrople’ within the parish of Saltprestoune. Three years later Elizabeth Ward appears as successor to her brother Richard in the same property (Inquis. Spec. Hadd. Nos. 339, 346).
RCAHMS 1924, visited 4 May 1914.
