Description

Robert Rowand Anderson, 1886. Single storey and attic
cottage, English vernacular style. Squared and snecked
red sandstone with ashlar dressings to ground floor,
mock timber-framing to attic floor.
N ELEVATION: asymmetrical 3-bay. Advanced gabled bay to left
with stone mullioned row of 5 narrow lights at ground;
jettied attic floor with 5-light canted oriel swept up from
decorative arcaded timber-framing, apex jettied again. Porch
Flanking single storey wings slightly advanced, with
at centre set in re-entrant angle, with cat-slide roof;
tripartite windows in segmentally arched panels.
entered from W through depressed arch doorway, paired
W ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2-bay addition to centre and
segmental windows to N; panelled 2-leaf door. 4-light window
flanking bay to right, with doorway on N return;
to outer right bay, detailed as left bay, and gabled 4-light
dormer window.
S ELEVATION: outer right bay gabled (S end of cross
wing) with narrow 5-light window, intercepted by stack
flanking centre bay; low stone mullioned bipartite to
ground at centre and tripartite swept dormer window above.
Canted 5-light window to outer left bay, added after 1926,
with piend roof. Glazed lean-to conservatory inserted between
outer right bay at ground, and small stone boiler house,
formerly detached.
E ELEVATION: window to left and slightly advanced stack to
right with saw-tooth set-off near ground.
W ELEVATION: blank with slightly advanced stack at
centre, breaking through apex of eaves.
Small-pane casement windows; timber mullions to attic
windows, and tile hanging to sides of dormer windows.
Rosemary tiles. Ashlar coping to stacks. Studded details to
mock timber-framing. Barge boarded overhanging eaves.
Decorative gutter fixtures.

Statement of Interest

Confusingly placed by Bielhill, rather than by

Beesknowe steading and cottages which lie nearby to W.

Shuttered ashcrete with plaster were employed between

the mock timber-framing, presenting an early use of such

a concrete. Possibly built for factor of Biel estate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792488

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Recommended Books

• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)