Architecture Notes

Event ID 798526

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NT48SE 76.00 49048 83567

NT48SE 76.01 49039 83470 East Gate Lodge

NT48SE 76.02 49008 83475 North Gate Lodge

NT48SE 76.03 49065 83526 Garden House

NT48SE 76.04 49113 83553 Greenhouses

NT48SE 76.05 4899 8352 Cottage

ARCHITECT: Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens 1901

Sir Robert Lorimer additions 1911

In collaboration with the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.

Situated on the edge of Gullane. Designed as a holiday home near Muirfield golf course for Alfred Lyttleton MP. Originally intended to have a fortress-like character, and to be named 'High Walls'. Elliptical front, curving horizontal planes, white casement windows, Georgian doorway. Walls of cream-colured rubble, roof of grey Dutch pantiles. Now a hotel.

C Hussey 1950; Arca 1999

NMRS REFERENCE:

Dick Peddie & Mackay, Edinburgh additions

Bin 19, Bag 3 Dick Peddie, Mackay & Jamieson 1950