Purvesholm, Sandy Loan, Gullane

Charles Hay, circa 1890. 2-storey L-plan. Scottish

Renaissance style house with 1st floor breaking eaves.

Squared and snecked rubble ashlar dressings. Raised

keyblocked margins to 1st floor lights. Small pane

glazing to sash and case windows. Lower ridge line to S

service wing.

N WING: door in ashlar panel by re-entrant angle with S

elevation. Bead and hollow architrave. "Purvesholm"

carved on lintel and swan neck pediment above. Raised

circular panel under eaves. Panelled door with decorative

brass handle. Single bay to right. E gable with

2 grouped 1st floor windows with moulded cornices.

Gablet crowsteps and linked triplet of brick diamond

stacks to wallhead. W gable form as above with round

arched 1st floor window and cast-iron balcony.

N ELEVATION: 5 bay. Door at centre with deeply carved

pediment at head of stone stairway leading from right,

with panelled piers and decorative balustrade. Decorative

heraldic carving to gableheads of 3 1st floor centre

windows. Canted bay at ground to outer left with piend roof.

S WING: depressed arch doorway at centre of E elevation

with hoodmould and panelled door. 2 gabled dormerheads

to 1st floor windows, carved as above. W elevation of

2 bays, recessed from gable of N wing to left.

Piend-roofed garage adjoining house on S gable, added

later circa 1905.

Red tiled roof, deep eaves with slated gables to dormers.

2 leaded segmental pedimented dormers facing S and E

scrolled skewputts to S gable. Moulded and diamond

brick stacks set on rubble bases. Decorative ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: retains high quality original details; fine Scotch

pine wood work panelling and carving to classical

chimneypieces.

Rubble boundary walls, quadrants and circular gatepiers.

Gently terraced garden.