Halls Farm Cottages
Farm Labourers Cottage(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Halls Farm Cottages
Classification Farm Labourers Cottage(S) (19th Century)
Canmore ID 210613
Site Number NT67SE 39
NGR NT 65214 72823
NGR Description Centred on NT 65214 72823
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/210613
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Spott (East Lothian)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
Part of a group of single storey farm cottages, 4 grouped in pairs, to form U-plan open to W. Rubble with ashlar dressings; timber mullions to bipartite windows, inserted later. N AND E BLOCKS: 6-bay. Widely grouped windows at centre flanking advanced, gabled porches, with chamfered arrises to door surrounds. Single windows to outer bays. REARS: brick lean-to late 19th century additions, with piend-roofed brick additions to W ends of N and S wings. S wing deprived of porch at left, blocked as window. Horizontal -pane glazing pattern. Slate roofs. Coped gable end and mutual gable stacks. Simple timber barge boarding to porches. A neat group of cottages in a fashionable style, connected with Halls Farmhouse (Historic Scotland)
Part of a group of 5 single storey farm cottages, 4 grouped in pairs, to form U-plan open to W. Rubble with ashlar dressings; timber mullions to bipartite windows, inserted later. N AND E BLOCKS: 6-bay. Widely grouped windows at centre flanking advanced, gabled porches, with chamfered arrises to door surrounds. Single windows to outer bays. REARS: brick lean-to late 19th century additions, with piend-roofed brick additions to W ends of N and S wings. S wing deprived of porch at left, blocked as window. Horizontal -pane glazing pattern. Slate roofs. Coped gable end and mutual gable stacks. Simple timber barge boarding to porches.
A neat group of cottages in a fashionable style, connected with Halls Farmhouse (Historic Scotland)
Standing Building Recording (21 October 2020 - 24 October 2020)
NT 65214 72823 A basic historic building survey was carried out at Halls Farm Cottages, near Dunbar, in October 2020, prior to their conversion. Three late-19th-century C listed buildings contained six individual farm workers’ cottages associated with Halls Farm, Dunbar. All three blocks shared the same architectural character with rubble-built whinstone wall with contrasting red sandstone dressings. The rear elevations had 20th-century brick-built extensions that originally served as coal fired washhouses. These were later converted into kitchens and bathrooms. Building 1 is a single cottage but was originally two cottages, Building 2 was originally two cottages but remodelled to form a single cottage, and whilst Building 3 had been extended, it remained as two separate cottages. Modernisation had been extensive in the mid- to late-20th century with the installation of bathrooms and kitchens. Older fireplaces dating to the second half of the 19th century were also represented. Two outhouses included a single storey brick-built shed and a rectangular stone and brick building with six compartments probably last used as coalhouses. The cottages were all unoccupied with Building 2 being in a very derelict state. Archive: NRHE (intended)
Funder: Private individual
Michael Cressey – CFA Archaeology Ltd
(Source: DES Vol 22)
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-408248 (S Mitchell) 2020
