Offices, Fountainhall is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 13 May 1991. Steading.
Offices, Fountainhall
- WRENN ID
- steep-remnant-juniper
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lothian
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1991
- Type
- Steading
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Fountainhall is a group of offices that likely dates back to the 18th century, possibly incorporating earlier elements and featuring later repairs. It is arranged in a quadrangular layout, located to the south of a mansion house. The building is constructed from cream sandstone rubble, squared and broadly droved for the dressings, and has pantile roofs. The stacks have been repaired using ashlar and brick, and the gable ends are coped with ashlar.
As of 1988, the building is in a neglected state. The northern range is largely blank, featuring a tall semi-circular cart arch off-centre to the right, with voussoirs. There is a higher blank wall in the centre and left, with the gable ends of the eastern and western ranges terminating the elevation. There are lean-to structures backing the higher wall on the courtyard side.
The western range includes a barn and granary, with a steeply pitched roof on the long range and opposing doors with chamfered arrises. A pantiled catslide provides shelter to the western elevation at the northern end. There is a hayloft door above a blocked door on the northern gabled end. The eastern range contains a stable or byre block at the northern end, featuring ventilation slits under the eaves and irregularly spaced doors. A stone forestair on the northern gable end leads to an entrance to the hayloft, which has wallhead stacks.
The southern range has timber lintelled openings and doors, likely leading to cattle courts, with some openings serving as feeding entrances. This range closes to the east with what appears to be a former farmhouse, which has a machinery door inserted into the outer elevation of the two-storey house. It retains a small first-floor window, while another window has been blocked. The eaves have a slate easing course, and there is a brick end stack to the east, along with further adjoining rubble walls.
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