Stables, Carlekemp House, Abbotsford Park, North Berwick

John Kinross, RSA, 1898. Single storey, U-plan stable

block and cottages around cobbled court, in Elizabethan

Cotswold style. Squared and snecked Rattlebag stone,

ashlar dressings. Moulded margins and mullions.

W (COURTYARD) ELEVATION: outer wings gabled with blank

masonry and stepped skewputts. Gabled bay breaking

eaves with hayloft above carriage doors at centre of

recessed main range. Obelisk finials to skewputts (one

missing), and decorative wrought-iron weathervane at

apex. Ornately carved lintel to former hayloft opening

with initials JC. Depressed arch doorways and mullioned

lights to courtyard elevations. Side wings asymmetrical;

battered stack with ogival decorative panel at centre of S

wing.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled bay at centre, comprising 2

tripartites at ground and bipartite in gablehead with

decoratively carved lintel; bipartites flanking; tripartite

and blank walls to outer right. Hoodmoulded 4-centred

doorway with small hoodmoulded tripartite at right, to

outer left bay.

Square lead-paned pattern to casement windows. Gablet

coping. Moulded coping to stacks. Westmoreland slates.

Decorative lead guttering and gutter heads.

GATEPIERS: gabletted ashlar piers with gablet coped

rubble walls flanking. Boarded timber gates, swept up

and with carved detail above. Decorative bronze door handle.