Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

PHANTASSIE HOUSELB14503

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Group Category Details
100000019 - 19, 20, 22
Date Added
05/02/1971
Local Authority
East Lothian
Planning Authority
East Lothian
Parish
Prestonkirk
NGR
NT 59810 77228
Coordinates
359810, 677228

Description

Mid 18th century, S facing 2-storey farmhouse, re-

orientated with additions as L-plan in early-mid 19th

century. White painted harling, ashlar dressings.

E ELEVATION: entrance front; steps to raised ground

floor semi-circular arched-doorway to centre with large

decorative fanlight and 4-pane side panels; flush

panelled door. Later canted bay windows flanking,

extending to basement.

Recessed 2-bay extension to right, tall windows; with

iron bars at ground.

S ELEVATION: 18th century centre block; 6-bay, door to

3rd bay from left, small windows flanking at ground,

6 windows at 1st floor. 2 taller 2-bay piend-roofed end

wings added circa 1800; 2 windows at ground floor, 2

taller windows to 1st floor. 2 windows at ground on W

re-entrant angle; entrance front to E.

N ELEVATION: irregular service additions of various

heights; irregular window pattern. Sash and case windows

with 12-pane glazing pattern.

Piend roofs, grey slates, ashlar coped wallhead and

ridge stacks; some renewed in brick.

INTERIOR: Some original woodwork and plasterwork.

Statement of Special Interest

Countess of Aberdeen sold Phantassie estate to

George Rennie in 1785. Rennie erected lime kilns soon

after. Houston Mill is also part of Phantassie estate,

where Andrew Meikle invented mechanical threshing in the

late 1780's. George Rennie's son John, born 1761 was an

apprentice at Houston Mill; later became an engineer

famous for, amongst others, Waterloo Bridge, London,

from which balusters commemorate him in the grounds of

the house.

References

Bibliography

J Martine REMINISCENCES OF THE ROYAL BURGH OF HADDINGTON

AND OLD EAST LOTHIAN AGRICULTURALISTS 1883.

"The Scot who bridged the Thames" Muir Scotland's

Magazine, June 1961.

OS Map Haddingtonshire 1854.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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