Description

Circa 1785 with later additions to rear (see Notes). Row of 3 single-storey, 3-bay, limewashed cotton-weavers cottages, all with timber porches. Harled rubble with freestone dressings. Variety of rendered brick, stone and timber single-storey additions and dormers to rear (predominantly 20th century).

Variety of non-traditional glazing patterns to timber framed windows. Grey slate. Ridge stacks with clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIORS: variously altered but broadly characterised by original plan to ground with kitchen and former workroom flanking a through passage opening off the front door.

Statement of Interest

part of a B Group comprising: Row of 6 Cottages (Ferndale, Houlet, Amulree, Finlaggan, Blinkieknowe, Birkenbush); Carlops, Row of 3 Cottages (Ashley, The Biggin, Weavers); Carlops, Carlops Church; Carlops, Pentland and Elphinstone; Carlops, Allan Ramsay Hotel; Carlops, Row of 4 Cottages (Springbank, Carberry, Langskaill, Jess (see separate listings).

Retaining their original scale and massing, this row of 3 single-storey traditional weavers cottages, set close to the roadside opposite the longer linear run of 6 cottages (see separate listing), contributes positively to the essential architectural and historic character of the village of Carlops which is largely defined by this building type.

The ground floor plan of each cottage was at one time identical, with kitchen and workroom flanking a through-passage opening off the front door. Both rooms to ground floor would have been fitted with box beds and wide lintelled sandstone fireplaces projecting on rounded corbels in the kitchen although none now survive.

The village was established in 1784 by Robert Brown, the laird of Newhall, who layed out linear rows of 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 retains its traditional character, largely due to the linear nature of the surrounding geography.

List description updated at resurvey (2010).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17842218

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas