The Grange, Grange Road, North Berwick

The Grange, designed by R S Lorimer, is an extensive gabled house of two storeys composed of a rectangular-plan north wing built in 1893, extended in 1899, and further extended in 1904 to the southwest with a U-plan wing. The design combines Scottish Renaissance and Arts and Crafts details. The building is harled with ashlar dressings and stone facings; the 1904 wing has a rubble base course.

The north wing's south elevation features gabled bays at centre and to the left, with two advanced bays to the right. A tripartite Renaissance porch set in a re-entrant angle has an exuberant scrolled pediment and leaded honeycomb glazing with painted glass panels. The doors are decoratively panelled, opening into two leaves. Two small lights appear at first floor level and a single light to the gable head with ogee carving to the lintel. Two tall four-pane windows in the outer left gableheads have honeycomb glazing and painted panels, with decorative carving on the ashlar apex panel above. The advanced outer bays to the right have rounded angles. First-floor lights break the eaves in decorative dormer heads flanking a raised stack corbelled at first floor and battered. A three-bay single-storey L-plan service block to the outer right has a parapet and three square lights, with a service court behind.

The north elevation is asymmetrical. A canted ground-floor bay at the centre is gabled above with two narrow lights breaking the eaves. A gabled bay flanks to the right, and a single light breaks the eaves in a gabled dormer to the left. A wider canted bay at ground floor to the outer right bay has a multi-light first-floor window above. A cone-roofed round tower at the outer right angle is corbelled at first floor, with moulded margins and cill course to the first-floor lights under the eaves. The penultimate bay to the left is advanced and corbelled at first floor, with a crowstepped gable.

The east elevation features a service court to the left with an advanced, lop-sided gable to the right.

The southwest wing's south elevation displays two advanced outer gables with an ogee-roofed round tower in the re-entrant to the left, reached by a curving stair with decorative wrought-iron balustrade. A moulded door surround has a panelled floor and a dated diamond panel (1904) above. A decorative pediment adorns the first-floor light breaking the eaves to the right. The left advanced gable is crowstepped with an archway into a loggia at ground to the left and a tall first-floor window at the centre, flanked by blind medieval arrow slits. Stone-facing quoin details frame the openings. A full-height canted bay to the advanced right Dutch gable has an oculus at the apex and a sundial corbelled below the skewputt to the east return, inscribed "Vivite Fugio 1893" (moved from its original location in 1904). A stack is corbelled at first floor on the west re-entrant side.

The north elevation of the southwest wing includes a square tower partly absorbed into the earlier wing to the east, with a flying buttress springing from the earlier gable. A recessed single-light bay at the centre has an advanced, crowstepped outer gable to the right with a tall first-floor window and decorative panel above. A corbelled turret at first floor to the outer right angle has an ogee roof. A square tower to the left has a corbelled, crenellated parapet and a cone-roofed stair tourelle in the northeast angle.

The west elevation features a canted bay breaking the eaves off-centre to the left with a raised parapet, battered base course and corbelled first floor with tall windows. A segmentally arched opening to a loggia is to the right. A turret at the north angle (as described above) is present.

The east elevation has two gabled bays with irregular openings at ground level, a chamfered re-entrant angle window bay and tall first-floor lights, the right window in a raised panel with carved crown pediments.

Windows are small-pane sash and case with some casements. Decorative gutter heads are present. Red plain tiled roofs and coped harled stacks complete the exterior.

The interior features a tiled porch with a decoratively panelled ceiling and brass door fittings. Some ceilings are high and coombed, with panelled walls, parquet floors and classical chimney pieces. Decorative plasterwork is throughout.

The gently terraced gardens to the north and west include urn finials and a stone sundial to the west. Random rubble boundary walls enclose the property.

The gateway comprises coped rubble quadrant walls between outer drum-piers and coped rusticated gatepiers with ball finials. Outstanding wrought-iron gates and railings were created by Thomas Hadden.