Description

Dunn and Watson, built around 1900. Single storey and attic pair of cottages with No.6 (to right) stepped down to lower level. Rubble stone walls with roughly squared and tooled, long and short margins. Thatched roofs with thatch taken over wallhead attic windows as rounded dormerheads in the English style with dormers. Dormers added after the 1920s. Ridge and gablehead chimney stacks.

Statement of Interest

A photograph in The James MacLaren Society Journal (2010), Vol.8, p.25 shows that the dormers were added after the 1920s.

It is among a relatively small number of thatched buildings across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities.

The use of thatch saw a revival in the late 19th century as part of the Arts and Crafts movement, particularly in Perthshire, central and southern Scotland. Non-traditional thatching materials were used, often in a style more closely associated with the thatched traditions in England. For example, the use of angled thatch forming an overhang at the skews was not a common detail in Scotland because of its vulnerability to wind damage.

Re-categorised as C from B for Group in 2006, when the B for group category was phased out. Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2021 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review. Previously listed as 'Artrasgairt, East Group'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56619090

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)