Outbuilding at Drem Farmhouse

This is a late 18th-century, two-storey farmhouse, originally aligned east-west. It was later extended in the 19th century to create a double-pile plan, with further wings added to the north and east. The building is constructed of random rubble stone with grey ashlar dressings; the east elevation is rendered and lined.

The south elevation has three bays and displays three tall windows on the ground floor and three smaller windows above. An entrance is located within a recessed, single-storey wing with an attic that adjoins the east gable. The porch has a cornice and blocking course, and the door is topped with a strip fanlight, with two small lancet windows on its return. A canted dormer with a polygonal roof sits above.

The west elevation shows the gable ends of the original building and the later addition, bridged together. A large, canted tripartite window with a cornice and blocking course is on the left at ground level, with a single window to the right. Above, there are three smaller windows. A lower wing with a catslide roof extends to the north; a doorway is flanked by two windows at ground level, with a single window above to the attic.

The windows are sash and case, with various glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates with straight skews, topped by ashlar-coped end stacks.

The listing includes the farmhouse, outbuildings and boundary walls, but excludes the detached outbuildings to the east drive and the scheduled monument of St John’s Chapel (SM5465).

Maps from 1853 show the property as part of Ordnance Survey Sheet 5, Haddingtonshire. Further details are discussed in Building of Scotland Lothian Except Edinburgh by C. McWilliam (1978).