Bunkerhill, Abbotsford Road, North Berwick

Sir Robert Lorimer, 1904. 2-storey rectangular plan,

Cotswold style small scale mansion. Mannered sandstone

rubble; ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. Stone

mullions.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: moulded semi-circular archway

with impose to recessed porch off-centre to right with

tripartite above. Irregular openings to right, including

transomed bipartite and tripartite. Gabled bay

intercepted by wallhead stack to right and 2 diamond

stacks above. Decorative carved lintel to gablehead

light. 2 advanced gabled bays left of centre, embracing

canted, 4-sided, full-height Elizabethan hall window.

Bipartite windows to gabled bays with Elizabethan stair

window to left gable. Bipartites to W side of stair

window bay. Recessed gabled bay to outer left with

paired tripartites at ground and 3-light above.

N (ROAD) ELEVATION: 3 advanced bays at centre; arched

doorway with raised voussoirs and short flight of steps in

centre bay. Large canted ground floor window to gabled

bay left of centre with tripartite lights, 4-light at 1st

floor and attic bipartite. Crenellated parapet above

centre and to 2 bays right of centre. Chamfered right

angle with bipartites to advanced bays; tripartites in

flanking, recessed bays. Full-height canted outer right

gable with bipartites. Paired bipartites at ground in

outer left gabled bay with 1st floor tripartite.

W ELEVATION: raised, battered stack at centre with

2 diamond stacks above. Decorative lintel to single light

at ground to left; bipartite at 1st floor to right.

E ELEVATION: service court at ground with centre archway

detailed as N elevation, 2 gabled bays behind, left bay

advanced.

Lead-pane glazing to casement windows with some plate

glass below transoms. Decorative lead gutter heads

retained. Gabletted coping and carved skewputts to

gable heads to W end. Swept eaves to 2 Arts and Crafts

style gable heads at E end of N and S elevations. Slate

roof. Moulded coping to stacks.

INTERIOR: retains very high quality work throughout

including panelling, chimneypieces. Galleried hall. Vine

detail to plasterwork ceilings.

Rubble retaining wall.