Satellites in Conservation Areas are bad, and on listed buildings they are ruinous. Good luck to the sales agent trying to maximise their fee.
East Linton: 1 (a chimney installation only visible from certain angles)
Tyninghame Village: 4 (these are actually pretty innocuous, but look illegal all the same)
Dunbar: too many to count
No one seems to love herring gulls, not least the Prime Minister who felt compelled the other day to declare yet another pointless war with an enemy that we probably had a significant hand in creating. The RSPB argues the contrary that the population has halved and down to 378,000 pairs, which makes our wee colony of a few hundred seem a tad insignificant.
A mid 19th century 2-storey, symmetrical 3-bay building with extension to the side sounds very much like a workaday building of the period, especially on Dunbar High Street, chokka with old buildings in various states of decay on the one hand and unsympathetic modernisations and bizarre additions on the other.
But take a look inside this one at 3 Abbeylands and you’ll be forgiven for thinking that the C listing (albeit in a building “group category B”) is mistakenly undersold.
Continue reading Masonic Lodge Dunbar – Lost and Found
I met an engaging old lady the other day while I was sweeping away the debris of vomit, fag ends and takeaway detritus brought up by the predictable Friday or Saturday night tide, which day I cannot remember exactly.
