Bolton Muir is a Grade A listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1977. Country house. 3 related planning applications.

Bolton Muir

WRENN ID
woven-bronze-foxglove
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 December 1977
Type
Country house
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Philip Dalton Hepworth, 1930. Single storey and attic country house in English vernacular style. Curved irregular plan; entrance court and garage adjoined at northeast. White painted brick with elm weather-boarding; timber mullions; lead-paned glazing pattern in casement windows. Norfolk reed thatch roof. Two large set-off stone chimney stacks.

North Elevation: concave; semi-circular tower breaking eaves off-centre to left; deeply chamfered depressed arched doorway with deep roughly coursed stone surround; small windows flanking; long row of lights under conical thatched roof above. Three-light eyelid dormers in flanking bays, above variety of windows.

South Elevation: convex; semi-circular tower off-centre to right with mullioned and transomed windows at ground and row of lights under eaves above. Eaves of flanking bays above attic windows in flanking bays. Three bays to left with large semi-circular windows at ground and small tripartite window above, and similarly detailed openings in west gabled return elevation. Mullioned windows in two bays to right of tower with bipartite, tripartirte and four-light windows.

Single storey bays leading to circular garden room at west end.

Entrance Court and Garage: low, single storey and attic piended roofed lodge, adjoined to house. Eyelid dormers to north and east. Two garage doors in north (timber panelled doors), and porch to east. Pair of splayed painted brick walls forming court to north, flanking garage entrance, with thatched coping and drum piers with conical thatched caps: pedestrian gateway each side.

Terrace Walls: convex flight of stone steps flanked by square and snecked stone terrace walls by south elevation; flagstoned terrace.

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