Description

Later 18th century. 9-bay row comprising 2 cottages. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. LYNBURN: 6-bays with 3-bays to left raised to form attic. Chamferred quoins to SE corner angle. Ashlar skews. Flat-roofed, painted brick porch addition with 2-leaf timber door; pair of piend-roof dormers. Stone built addition to rear with lean-to roof. LINNBURN: 3-bay, single storey cottage to right with smaller window openings; flat roof addition to rear.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing to timber sash and case windows. Grey slate. Coped, ridge and end stacks with clay cans. Cast iron rainwater goods.

GROTTO: to garden at rear of Lynburn: Ionic pilastered doorway with carved lintel and dentilled cornice; armorial crest above surmounted by carved lion sculpture dated 1823. Slightly curving battlemented screen walls flanking with round-arched niches; fluted pylons to outer edges.

Statement of Interest

Prominently sited beside the Carlops Road, the proportions of the row and use of traditional materials contribute positively to the traditional historic and architectural character of Carlops. Formerly 3 weavers cottages, the additional attic storey at Lynburn was added in the early 19th century. The architectural and historic interest is supported by the distinctive Classical influenced grotto located in the garden of Lynburn.

The diminuitive garden grotto with its arrangement of stone carved detailing was built by the then occupier, Charles Wilson, a plasterer, amateur sculptor and freemason in 1823. It is an unusual and highly personal piece of work, reflecting the importance of the local stone quarrying industry in the 19th century at Deepsykehead and others quarries in the immediate surrounding area. The chamfered quoins to the SE corner may also have been added by Mr Wilson.

The existing village of Carlops was founded in 1784, when Robert Brown, the laird of Newhall, began to establish a cotton-weaving industry there, laying out linear rows of weavers cottages on each side of the main Edinburgh to Biggar road. As the textile industry declined towards the end of the 19th century, the picturesque village found a new role as a health resort for summer visitors from Edinburgh and remains a centre for day visitors and Pentland Hill walkers. The village is predominantly characterised by its linear rows of single storey former cotton-weavers cottages.

List description updated at resurvey (2010).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17842020

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