Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey, 4-bay rectangular-plan piend-roofed cottage on sloping site. 4 3-centred arched windows to Eglinton Street, all under square-headed lintels; that to outer L bipartite. Small opening at basement level between 2 left windows, boarded and punched with ventilation holes. Random sandstone rubble; raised ashlar margins.

E (REAR) ELEVATION: door to centre L with later timber boarded door (circa 1920); window to outer L; window to centre R.

GABLES: that to N with window to outer L and small boarded opening to basement at outer R; that to S with central window.

Timber sash and case glazing throughout (that to bipartite window good quality replacement, 2002); lying-pane and later 4-pane plate glass sashes to S end. Grey slates and distinctive fireclay ridge tiles; overlapping skews to gable; corniced end stacks with 4 hexagonal clay cans (1 smaller, possibly replacement).

OUTBUILDING: small rectangular single storey building (probably former washhouse) to rear; harled bricks with slate pitched roof and fireclay ridge tiles; stone ledge doocot entrance above timber boarded door. Roof altered to incorporate 2 sections of corrugated transparent material. Stone fireplace with ashlar chimneystack and clay can.

BOUNDARY WALLS: coped sandstone rubble wall with gatepiers at S gable. Similar wall to rear bounding Glebe.

INTERIOR: narrow passage connecting rooms with timber pilastered arch. Sitting room: plain cornice; depressed-arched sideboard niche. Timber panelled doors and window embrasures (some working shutters).

Statement of Interest

On a prominent site in Eglinton Street, on the approach to the town from the southwest, No 87 is distinctive with its stylised Tudor-Gothic windows and lying-pane glazing. Virtually unaltered, its overlapping skews and original chimneystacks and cans provide

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17829246

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

• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)