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Chapel Cottage, Orton

A Category B Listed Building in Rothes, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.581 / 57°34'51"N

Longitude: -3.1379 / 3°8'16"W

OS Eastings: 332056

OS Northings: 855119

OS Grid: NJ320551

Mapcode National: GBR L8MP.79T

Mapcode Global: WH6JP.RQZ6

Plus Code: 9C9RHVJ6+9V

Entry Name: Chapel Cottage, Orton

Listing Name: Orton, Chapel Cottage (Formerly St Mary's Cottage)

Listing Date: 9 November 1987

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 349566

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15869

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Orton, Chapel Cottage

ID on this website: 200349566

Location: Rothes

County: Moray

Electoral Ward: Speyside Glenlivet

Parish: Rothes

Traditional County: Morayshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Probably Thomas MacKenzie, Elgin, architect, dated 1854.
Gothic, S facing cruciform single storey, 3-bay cottage
orne. Tooled ashlar frontage, rubble E gable, modern harling
elsewhere; tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Centre
advanced and gabled porch with recessed pointed-headed and
cusped entrance with pair of flanking nook-shafts with
nailheads decoration between. Trefoil plaque in gablet;
paired lights.
Flanking pointed headed bipartites; large pointed headed
plate traceried windows in E and W gables.
Hoodmoulds with masked stops to all windows and doorway;
lattice-pane glazing; stylised mask corbels at eaves cornice
to frontage; sawtooth skews; centre ridge stack; local slate
roofs.

Statement of Interest

Gablet plaque inscribed 'St Mary's Cottage, 1854'.

Despite date of 1854 this cottage probably that 'cottage

near mausoleum' for which there were advertisements for

tender in 1851.

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