Gullane, Saltcoats Road, Saltcoats

NT 48730 82255 A standing building appraisal undertaken in March 2011 confirmed that Saltcoats Farm was a ‘Mains’ or home farm associated with a large East Lothian estate, which lies on the edge of fertile arable land. A total of 26 individual units were recorded and the earliest buildings are all stone built with ashlar dressings and crow-stepped gables. The farm includes a range of buildings associated with a boiler house and chimney base. This was originally used for threshing corn in the early 19th century. A fine cartshed and portico is situated on the S side of the farm and was formerly attached to a rectilinear animal house which has been reduced to about one third of its original size following a fire. Adjoining this range was another range of the same size. The latter has six cattle courts with a roofed feeding stall and gate piers on the E side. Facing the cattle courts was another rectilinear range comprising a farmhouse, cattle sheds and stables. The farmhouse has fine ashlar crow-steps on its front (E elevation). It has a simple two room plan, which has been little altered and still contains early 19th-century fireplaces. On the E side of the farmhouse is a large modern steel-framed shed, to the S of which is a 19th-century dairy. This detached building is associated with other domestic buildings, including a row of outhouses, which were used by the occupants of a new large farmhouse of mid-19th-century date, situated on the SE side of the farm.

Archive: RCAHMS. Reports: East Lothian Council SMR

Funder: Mr David Inglis (landowner)

CFA Archaeology Ltd 2011

Information also reported in Oasis (cfaarcha1-97656) 15 January 2013

A standing building appraisal has confirmed that Saltcoats Farm was a ‘Mains’ or home farm associated with a large East Lothian estate which lies on the edge of fertile arable land. Twenty-six individual units were recorded and the earliest buildings are all stone built with ashlar dressings and crow-stepped gables. The farm includes a range of buildings associated with a boiler house and chimney base. This was originally used for threshing corn in the early 19th century. A fine cartshed and portico is situated on the south side of the farm and was formerly attached to a rectilinear animal house which has been reduced to about one third of its original size following a fire. Adjoining this range was another range of the same size. The latter has six cattle courts with roofed feeding stall and gate piers on the east side. Facing the cattle courts was another rectilinear range comprising a farm house, cattle sheds and stables. The farmhouse has fine ashlar crow-steps on its fron (east elevation). Occupying a simple two-roomed plan this building has been little altered and still contains early 19th-century fireplaces. On the east side of the farmhouse is a large modern steel-framed shed, to the south of which is a 19th- century dairy. This detached building is associated with other domestic buildings, including a row of outhouses were used by the occupants of a new large

farmhouse of mid 19th-century date, situated on the south-east side of the farm, but not included in the survey.

Information from CFA Archaeology Ltd.