Description

Late 18th century. Single storey, three-bay rectangular-plan cottage with steeply pitched thatched roof. Harled with raised painted margins. Battered base course; splayed angles.

Northwest (entrance) elevation: doorway at centre with deep-set boarded door with diamond-pane panel. Single windows flanking entrance.

12-pane sash and case windows. Reed-thatched roof with scalloped ridging. Brick chimneystacks on each gablehead with moulded cans.

Boundary walls: harled rubble boundary wall adjoining to southwest. Edward VII postbox set into whinstone rubble wall adjoining to northeast.

Statement of Interest

K6 telephone kiosk to northeast (see separate listing, LB15396).

It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found 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. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.

Listed building record revised in 2019 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review 2017-19.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17850217

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version