Grieve's House, Tyninghame Links

This is a mid-19th century steading, with a single-story and attic L-plan house built into the southeast corner. The steading is a quadrangular structure built from squared and snecked red rubble sandstone with droved ashlar dressings.

The south range features a segmentally arched carriage pend in a raised gabled bay towards the right centre. A blind oculus sits in the apex of this gable. Bothy rooms are located on either side of the pend, each with two doorways and a window to the left and one doorway and a window to the right. A sliding door under the eaves is located to the right, alongside a further window in the outer bay. Five segmentally arched cartshed openings are found to the left, with four rectangular granary openings irregularly spaced above. Wide sliding doors are positioned under the granary level to the outer right.

The north range has an advanced gabled bay in the centre, containing a wide, altered entrance. Wide openings are present in the east and west ranges, in the outer bays, which break the eaves of the cat-slide roof on the outer left. The east and west ranges have scattered, irregular openings, with a hayloft situated on the west range.

The courtyard displays several features. On the south range, the roof pitch has been cut above the eaves to heighten the pend entrance. A stable doorway is below the pend to the left, and a forestair leads to the granary on the right. Three widely grouped segmental arches are found to the right of the pend, with four granary openings above. Two doorways are situated to the left of the pend. On the north range, a rectangular opening is centrally placed, flanked by two segmentally arched openings on either side, the outer arches of which are now blocked. The east range features seven segmentally arched openings, five of which are blocked, while the west range has six segmentally arched openings, all blocked.

Twelve-pane glazing is used in the sash and case windows of the south range. The roof is pantiled with sections of corrugated asbestos in the courtyard. Boarded doors and interior shutters are fitted to the granary openings.

The interior of the bothy rooms to the west of the piend features two droved stone chimneypieces; one has a cast-iron range, the other a horse-shoe grate.

The Grieve’s House has a doorway with chamfered arrises in the re-entrant angle, alongside a gabled projecting wing to the right. The doorway has a boarded door with a strip fanlight. A stone mullioned bipartite window is at ground level in the advanced wing, with a single first-floor light above. A timber mullioned bipartite window is located to the outer left with two gabled attic dormer windows that break the eaves. The north and east elevations of the house are harled, with a ground and first-floor window to the east gable of the east-west arm. The sash and case windows feature a four-pane glazing pattern. End gable wallhead ashlar stacks are present on the east and west sides, and the roof is steeply pitched with pantiles and raised coped skews. Former ball finials were on the gables at the south; one remains.