Swiss Cottage, Manse Road, Dirleton

Swiss Cottage, located on Manse Road in Dirleton, is a house dating from the earlier to mid-19th century. It is a two-storey building with a single-storey rear projection, constructed from red squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring chamfered openings.

On the southeast elevation, there is a forestair with a gablet coped roof, an arcaded balustrade, and polygonal, pyramid-coped columns at the base. A bracketed timber porch with decorative pendant barge boarding and a slated roof is present, along with a lattice section to the east of the porch. Below the forestair is an arched slit, and to the east, there is a four-centred arched floor under the stair, which has a panelled door. To the left of the doorway, there is a gabled bay with two small windows, while the outer bay to the right is blank. The single-storey projection to the left features two segmentally arched windows that break the eaves in gabled dormer heads.

The northeast elevation has an advanced gabled bay to the right with a raised, battered stack, and a recessed bay to the left with a lower eaves level and a similar raised stack.

On the east elevation, there are tripartite openings at the centre of the gabled elevation, with a shallow canted ashlar oriel supported by decorative console brackets at the first floor, topped with an overhanging stone piend roof.

Internally, the building was originally two cottages, one above the other, which have now been combined. There is a variety of glazing patterns, including plate glass sash and case windows for the main openings. The roof is covered with grey slates, and the eaves on the east gable are deeply overhanging with timber brackets. The north side features diamond stacks, while the gablet coping has ball finials at the apexes and consoled skewputts.