Invereil House, Dirleton Road, North Berwick

1. Peddie and Washington Browne 3-storey, plain Baronial

house. Snecked red sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings.

Moulded string course encircling above ground floor,

eaves course. Raised margins.

S ELEVATION: 3 bays at centre with stone bracketted,

balustraded balcony across 1st floor entered by doorway

at centre with strapwork panel above; crowstepped gable

above with dated shield panel in gable head. Flanking

bay to right with 3 windows at ground and bipartites above,

single windows to flanking bays to left, door in

outer left bay in pilastered, moulded surround, Dutch

bonnet panel above, wrought-iron studs and hinges to

oak door, 2nd floor windows with pedimented dormer

heads. Outer right bay advanced and gabled with bipartites

at ground and 2nd floor. Conical roofed stair tower in

re-entrant angle with panelled door below corbel courses.

N ELEVATION: near symmetrical U-plan with corbelled

conical roofed stair turrets in re-entrant angle. Balcony

at 1st floor in left turret. Gable ends similarly windowed

(except ground) with carved panels over 2nd,

crowstepped. Irregular side elevations.

Small-pane upper sashes to sash and case windows with

some fully small-pane. Beak skewputts to crowstepped

gables, consoled skewputts to coped gable skews.

Moulded coping to stacks slated roof.

INTERIOR: some original details. Tiles vestibule, panelling

and plasterwork.