Ormesdene, 38 Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick

Circa 1900. 2-storey villa. Red ashlar base course; harled above. Painted margins and 1st floor cill course. Applied timber framing to gable heads. Plate glass glazing to casement windows with lead-paning above transomes. Some small-pane sash and case windows.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrical. Angle turret to left angle with multi-light rows at ground and first floor with cone roof above. Large round arched recessed porchway off-centre to right. Tripartite doorway with double-leaf door, round arched lights and segmental fanlight. 4-light above and 3-lights in flanking bay left. Canted outer bay to right with multi-lights and jettied gable head.

W ELEVATION: recessed bays to left with angle turret to right (as above). Canted multi-light bay at centre to left of advanced wing.

N ELEVATION: advanced bays to left with large gabled dormer. Stair window raised in re-entrant angle at centre.

E ELEVATION: blank outer bays with lower eaves to right; irregular windows at centre.

Coped ashlar stacks. Red plain tiled roof with overhanging eaves.

INTERIOR: some outstanding features. Lugged panel with waved pediment above over hall fireplace bearing scenic oil paintings by P W Adam. Lugged, moulded door surrounds. Fine chimneypieces.

SUMMER HOUSE: brick, gabled pavilion with applied timber framing to gable heads. 3-bay, rectangular plan. Projecting timber loggia with depressed centre archway and small-paned round-headed windows flanking.

Rubble boundary wall to N and W.