Description

Circa 1800. Single storey and attic, 3-bay cottage in row of 3. Harled, grey slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles. 4-pane timber sash and case windows to front with narrow painted margins, large gabled dormers, four 4-pane casements to rear; ashlar-coped skews and stack to E gable, brick stack to W; cast-iron rainwater goods.

FRONT ELEVATION: modern door to centre with narrow-margined painted

doorcase, window to left and right, 2 dormers.

REAR ELEVATION: 4 windows, rooflight.

INTERIOR: walls and ceilings boarded almost throughout; early chimneypieces including one with salt box adjoining.

Statement of Interest

The name of St Margaret's Cottage derives from the ownership of the Sisters of St Margaret of Scotland from 1936-94, during which period it was used as a retreat house. The interior is remarkable little-altered.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56620004

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)