Description

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson; 1885. Extended mid-20th century. Single storey, symmetrical range of six farm-worker's cottages with advanced gabled ends flanking central arch. Coursed sandstone rubble, ashlar dressings.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: central gable: pointed-arched pend, rubble voussoirs; hood mould; inset architraved date stone below gablehead; plain stone skews; slate roof; small stone stacks flanking at ridge; 4 cottages flanking archway: flush surround tripartite window to right flank of each doorway, bipartite to each left flank; 2 stone stacks to each row2 end cottages: entrance doorway on main block, window in re-entrant angles; gable ended, window with circular window above.

SW ELEVATION: single storey flat-roofed extension to return of No 9; high rubble chimney stack, stone neck cope.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 cottages to flanks of arch: original elevation mostly obscured by single storey, flat-roofed extensions to central 4, further extensions to No 13 rear.

NE ELEVATION: single storey flat-roofed extension to return of No.14; high rubble chimney stack, stone neck cope.

6-pane, slightly bowed bipartite and tripartite casement windows to front. Graded slate piended roof, with some modern Velux roof light to cottage's rear pitch. Chimneys: single can to short stack, triple can to high stack, paired plain cans.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2000.

Statement of Interest

Sir Robert Rowand Anderson designed these properties. He was responsible for the design of the farmhouse at Crichton Mains, along the road, in 1885-7. These cottages were built to house workers from this estate. The farm cottages are grouped to either side of an arched thoroughfare, leading to drying greens at the back. Each cottage had its own small front garden, shared drive and the green to the rear and a small outhouse and toilet. Later alterations to each cottage added a small flat-roofed kitchen/bathroom extension to the rear or side, but now larger replacement additions have led to the rear elevation losing its original simplicity of form and line. Front elevation and gardens now surrounded by a hedge and low rubble wall.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17827108

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)