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Cowthrople
Country House (17th Century)
Site Name Cowthrople
Classification Country House (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dolphingston
Canmore ID 53715
Site Number NT37SE 7
NGR NT 3822 7273
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53715
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Prestonpans
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT37SE 7 3822 7273.
(NT 3822 7273) Cowthrople or Dolphingston (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10000 map (1973)
Cowthrople or Dolphinston (sic), built in the late 17th c. was of considerable size, oriented E-W. Only part of one wall remains, indicating the barrel-vaulted basement. The upper floor windows were large, and their jambs have back-set margins, indicating that the building was roughcast. The ruin stands within an apparently contemporary high wall.
Cromwell is traditionally said to have occupied this house for a time.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1914; D E Green 1907
Nothing now remains of Cowthrople.
Visited by OS (SFS( 26 August 1975
Field Visit (4 May 1914)
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.
