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Dunbar, Lamer Street, Horseburghs Warehouse

Cinema (20th Century), Grain Warehouse (18th Century), Lodging House (19th Century) - (20th Century), Maltings (18th Century), Warehouse (18th Century), Workshop(S) (18th Century)

Site Name Dunbar, Lamer Street, Horseburghs Warehouse

Classification Cinema (20th Century), Grain Warehouse (18th Century), Lodging House (19th Century) - (20th Century), Maltings (18th Century), Warehouse (18th Century), Workshop(S) (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'The Dreadnought'; Dreadnought Hall; Comwell Haven

Canmore ID 122036

Site Number NT67NE 166

NGR NT 68028 79096

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Dunbar
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County East Lothian

Archaeology Notes

NT67NE 166 6802 7909

Late 18th century three storey warehouse, with additions of 1919.

Site recorded by GUARD during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, 'The Firth of Forth from Dunbar to the Coast of Fife' 1996.

NT 6802 7909 A programme of archaeological recording was carried out at the former Dreadnought Warehouse (NT67NE 166) in Lamer Street, Dunbar. The work was occasioned by plans to convert the building into apartments, and included detailed architectural survey and limited trial trenching. The building is thought to date to the mid-18th century and originally to have been used as a maltings, later being altered to form a lodging house and subsequently a cinema.

Sponsor: W A Gillespie & Son.

H Moore and G Wilson (EASE Archaeology) 2002

The premises of Messrs. Horseburgh and Son, Joiners, in Shore Street were originally a grain store. Its W end forms the corner of Shore and Lamer Streets, and at the back abuts on ... [a] kippering-house [see NT67NE 152]. It is well built of coursed red-sandstone rubble with droved margins. A central segmented arch gives access through the building to a yard, and both faces show the usual fenstration of a warehouse; over the arch on the yard frontage there is a loading door on each of the three storeys, and a projecting beam in a gablet above. It measures about 90 feet in length and 20 feet in breadth.... Visited 3 August 1965.

A Graham 1965-6.

Architecture Notes

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Dunbar, Dean of Guild Drawings

1919 - Proposed alterations for Martin Reilly.

Plans: Dunbar, Dean of Guild Drawings plan no. 337.

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