Description
Circa 1910. Single storey, L-plan Arts and Crafts
studio-villa single storey with attic, porch addition to
rear.
White painted harl, red ashlar cills.
E ELEVATION: door to centre with recessed lugged
surround and cantilevered canopy, small windows
flanking. Gabled balcony recess with semicircular
opening breaking eaves above entrance bay, decorative
timber brackets and simple balustrade, mock timber
framing at apex. Attic balcony door. Windows to outer
bays.
S ELEVATION: 6-light window to ground floor with 4 lights
to centre forming canted bay echoed in window to attic
above with cornice.
W ELEVATION: 1 window to main block, 2 windows to wing
at ground. Modern window in piend-roofed dormer to
attic in re-entrant angle.
N ELEVATION: single storey porch projection with window,
adjoining gable end with stair window. 2 windows to
wing. Multi-pane casement windows flanking E entrance,
and to S elevation. Elsewhere predominantly sash and
case with various glazing, some modern.
Red tiles overhanging eaves. Ashlar coped harled
wallhead stacks; that to N intercepting skew to right of
gablehead, to W paired diamond stacks with decorative
cornice and ashlar shoulders.
Statement of Special Interest
Built for Robert Noble (1857-1917) East Lothian artist,
who required balcony for asthmatic complaint. Almost
certainly by same architect as 1 Preston Road; possibly E
Auldjo Jamieson whose The Manse, Nisbet Road, Gullane has a
similar Arts and Crafts design and date.
Builders Malcolm and Laing, East Linton.