Bamburgh Castle, 23 High Street, Dunbar

Later 17th century with later alterations. 2-storey and

attic, L-plan house. Harled sandstone rubble with dressed

stone margins. Pantiled roof, slate easing course, crowsteps

and beak skewputts. Harled gable and brick stacks.

Ground floor serving as vaulted cellerage, N part entered

through pend; larger S part now divided, entered from E end

through pend.

W ELEVATION: 4-bay; abutting single storey outbuilding at

right angles, projecting from N bay. Pend under 2nd bay; door

above. L-plan forestair to right with iron railings;

decorative iron door hinges, handle and studs to timber door.

Windows altered, random arrangements, some 12-pane glazing

remains. Modern flat-roofed dormers and earlier piend roofed

dormers breaking eaves.

E ELEVATION: gabled wing to S, possibly later addition with

door below at ground; 2 1st floor windows and small window in

gable head. Stairblock with narrow window in re-entrant angle

under swept roof. Later, lower, lean-to block adjoining to

E. Pend through from main block; windows above and to right

at 1st floor level.

INTERIOR: Modernised above, but some panelled shutters

remaining. Modelled plaster frieze at head of forestair

passage. Early-mid 19th century cast-iron water-spout affixed

to W facade by pend.