Bielside, West Barns, Dunbar

Robert Rowand Anderson, 1866, sizeable extension

consisting 2-storey villa with 4-stage Italianate tower

adjoined to S of earlier 19th century house and 17th

century windmill, converted for domestic use. Roughly

coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, channelled quoins

and raised base eaves and band courses.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay, symmetrical. 3 narrower

central bays recessed with balustraded loggia bridging

between advanced outer bays; Ionic columns and ball-

finialled dies. Outer bays with tripartites at ground,

bipartites at 1st floor.

E ELEVATION WITH TOWER: 4-stage tower at centre of

asymmetrical elevation, with triple arcaded lights in

top storey, bracketted cornice and shallow pyramidal

roof; weathervane. Wide full-height canted bay to outer

left bay with 5-lights. 3-storey canted bay immediately

to right of tower, linked to earlier harled brick and

rubble house.

W ELEVATION: decorative gabled conservatory to left of

1866 S wing.

Plate glass glazing pattern to sash and case windows

with some 4-pane; bracketted cills to main windows.

Shallow pitch, slated piend roof; bracketted moulded

coping to ashlar stacks. Decorative gutter heads

retained.

INTERIOR: fine decoration retained, including stone

caryatid chimneypieces, ornate alabaster chimneypiece

with unusual tiles to cheeks, and angle chimneypiece to

Hall. Timber dog-leg stair. Gilded surrounds to pier

glasses; fine painted, Renaissance style wall decoration.

Ornate plasterwork.

WINDMILL: red rubble sandstone, formerly harled, former

grain mill in funnel form. Stone stair spiralling up to

S to doorway in passage linking with earlier house.

Irregular windows and pigeon flight opening with cill at

wallhead. Leaded coping.