Purvesholm, Sandy Loan, Gullane

Purvesholm is a 2-storey L-plan house built around 1890 by Charles Hay, designed in the Scottish Renaissance style. The first floor features a distinctive break in the eaves, and the exterior is finished with squared and snecked rubble and ashlar dressings. The first-floor windows have raised keyblocked margins and small pane glazing in sash and case style. The service wing to the south has a lower ridge line.

On the northwest wing, there is a door set in an ashlar panel at the re-entrant angle of the south elevation. This door features a bead and hollow architrave, with "Purvesholm" carved on the lintel and a swan neck pediment above. A raised circular panel is located under the eaves, and the entrance has a panelled door with a decorative brass handle. To the right of the entrance, there is a single bay. The east gable has two grouped first-floor windows with moulded cornices, gablet crowsteps, and a linked triplet of brick diamond stacks at the wallhead. The west gable mirrors this design but includes a round arched first-floor window and a cast-iron balcony.

The northeast elevation consists of five bays, with a central door that has a deeply carved pediment above, leading to a stone stairway from the right, flanked by panelled piers and a decorative balustrade. The gableheads of the three central first-floor windows feature decorative heraldic carvings. There is a canted bay at the ground level on the outer left, topped with a piend roof.

The south wing has a depressed arch doorway at the center of the east elevation, complete with a hoodmould and a panelled door. The first floor features two gabled dormerheads, carved similarly to the other details. The west elevation has two bays, set back from the gable of the north wing on the left side. A piend-roofed garage, added around 1905, is attached to the south gable.

The roof is covered with red tiles and has deep eaves with slated gables on the dormers. There are two leaded segmental pedimented dormers facing south and east, with scrolled skewputts on the south gable. Moulded and diamond brick stacks are set on rubble bases, and decorative ridge tiles complete the roof.

Inside, the house retains high-quality original details, including fine Scotch pine woodwork, panelling, and classical chimneypieces. The property is enclosed by rubble boundary walls, with quadrants and circular gatepiers, and features a gently terraced garden.