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Dunbar, 9, 11, 13 Church Street, Assembly Rooms
Assembly Rooms (19th Century), Flats(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Dunbar, 9, 11, 13 Church Street, Assembly Rooms
Classification Assembly Rooms (19th Century), Flats(S) (20th Century)
Canmore ID 207348
Site Number NT67NE 202
NGR NT 68044 78882
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/207348
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Dunbar
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
A two storey building with basement, built 1822 by local subscription.
Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 1996.
2-storey and substantial basement. Coursed ironstone rubble with droved Catcraig ashlar quoins and piended slate roof. W entrance front of 5 bays with arched doorway in 2nd over basement bridge; double doors. Steps down to basement. Tall ground floor blind windows sashes with blind windows above. Side elevation blank with wallhead stacks. REAR E ELEVATION: 5 bays. Basement altered for habitation, 3 generous, ground floor sash windows to left (ballroom). Tripartite in 5th bay 1st floor to N multi-pane sashes.
Assembly rooms built for town gatherings of neighbouring farmers; funds raised by subscription. Sited at foot of Cossar's Wynd (formerly Craws Wynd) (Historic Scotland)
Publication Account (2006)
The Assembly Rooms had also been built in Church Street, in 1822. A plain, but gracious, building of ironstone rubble with Catcraig dressings, its supper room and ballroom attest to the pretensions and confidence of the people of Dunbar in the early nineteenth century.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Dunbar: Archaeology and Development’, (2006).
