Seton Lodge, 205 Church Street, Tranent

Late 18th century 4-bay, single storey lodge with earlier to mid 19th century 2-storey addition and lean-to porch on falling ground at rear. Droved sandstone, roughly squared and coursed on W elevation, remaining elevations in rubble; ashlar dressings.

W ELEVATION: 4-bay. Door off-centre to right; painted margins and porch comprised of slender quatrefoil section cast-iron columns, timber cornice and painted lead bell-cast roof, swept up into Sun fire insurenace plaque as finial. Window flanking to right and to each bay to left.

REAR ADDITION: gabled 2-storey block adjoined at right angles at centre, clasping rear elevation and breaking eaves; blank to S side, lean-to porch to N, and window to each floor to E, with blinded attic window.

Line of former addition apparent at ground to S, and generous attic window above.

12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows; stained glass border pattern to 1st floor window at rear. Ashlar coped skews, droved end stacks; grey slates.

INTERIOR: original lodge furnished grandly with high ceilings; Drawing Room with classical decoration; black marble classical chimneypiece, panelled dado and shutters, decorative plaster cornice; fluted Composite pilasters and Adamesque frieze to wall recess; 5 doors for symmetry, 2 blind. Decorative finger plates. Rear addition with stair, evidently built as service wing.

RETAINING WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATEWAYS: rubble coped sandstone rubble retaining walls; ahslar coped to W with spearhead cast- and wrought-iron railings. Droved ashlar gabled porch to W, ashlar coped, with carved armourial in gablehead (see Notes); boarded gate. Blocked pointed arch gateway incorporated in W wall to S.