Stables, Carlekemp House, Abbotsford Park, North Berwick

The stables at Carlekemp House, located in Abbotsford Park, North Berwick, were designed by John Kinross, RSA, in 1898. This single-storey, U-plan stable block and cottages are arranged around a cobbled courtyard and are built in the Elizabethan Cotswold style. The structure features squared and snecked Rattlebag stone with ashlar dressings, moulded margins, and mullions.

On the west elevation facing the courtyard, the outer wings are gabled with blank masonry and stepped skewputts. The central gabled bay breaks the eaves and includes a hayloft above carriage doors, which are set within a recessed main range. The skewputts are topped with obelisk finials, although one is missing, and there is a decorative wrought-iron weathervane at the apex. An ornately carved lintel above a former hayloft opening displays the initials JC. The courtyard elevations feature depressed arch doorways and mullioned lights. The side wings are asymmetrical, with a battered stack and an ogival decorative panel at the centre of the south wing.

The east elevation at the rear has a central gabled bay, which includes two tripartite windows at ground level and a bipartite window in the gablehead, all adorned with a decoratively carved lintel. There are bipartites flanking this bay, with tripartite and blank walls to the outer right. A hoodmoulded 4-centred doorway is located at the outer left bay, accompanied by a small hoodmoulded tripartite to the right.

The windows are square lead-paned casements, and the building features gablet coping and moulded coping to the stacks, all covered with Westmoreland slates. Decorative lead guttering and gutter heads enhance the architectural detail.

The gatepiers consist of gabletted ashlar piers with gablet-coped rubble walls on either side. The boarded timber gates are swept up and feature carved details above, along with a decorative bronze door handle.