Stable Block, Tyninghame House

William Burn, circa 1833, incorporating earlier work,

notably the S range. Squared and snecked red rubble sandstone

with ashlar dressings.

W (ENTRANCE) RANGE: 2 square ashlar gatepiers, with shield

and coronet dies, flanking timber gates; low range running N

and S, each with ventilation slits; advanced gabled bay set

in re-entrant angle to S. Range closed by advanced gabled end

elevations of N and S ranges. 2 stables to left side block,

and formerly to right, opening on courtyard with doors

flanked by windows.

N RANGE: 6 segmentally carriage arches to courtyard

elevation, with timber doors.

S RANGE: 8 regular bays to S, with gabled dormerhead windows

breaking eaves to outer 3 bays each side, louvred for hayloft

to 2 to outer left, remainder with small-pane glazing.

Hayloft door to W gable, window to attic of E gable, both

with large die skewputts and wallhead stacks. Incised

ornament incorporated in rubble masonry, taken from ruins of

St Baldred's Kirk, in grounds of Tyninghame House. Boarded

stalls retained in interior, with hay racks and cast-iron

posts.

E RANGE: (leading to sub-court and piggery); gateway off-

centre to left of courtyard elevation with timber gates; 3

bays to left of doorway flanked by windows, with gabled

hayloft dormer above centre; 4 bays to right with segmental

archway to stables set off-centre to right, with dormered

hayloft above and windows to remaining bays. 4 semi-

circular arched hay hecks to stone flagged stables.

Long gabled range running E beyond sub-court, with

ventilators; remains of walled piggery runs to N.

Courtyard partly with setts, mostly tarmac-ed. Variety of

small-pane glazing and louvred openings in sash and case

windows. Crowstepped gables with beak skewputts; grey slates,

with pantiles to piggery.