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Latitude: 55.2336 / 55°14'1"N
Longitude: -3.8143 / 3°48'51"W
OS Eastings: 284716
OS Northings: 594769
OS Grid: NX847947
Mapcode National: GBR 17TX.0P
Mapcode Global: WH5VN.CQW6
Plus Code: 9C7R65MP+F7
Entry Name: Sundial Cottage, former Joseph Thomson Cottage, Marrburn Road, Penpont Village
Listing Name: Marrburn Road (Joseph Thomson Cottage), Penpont Village and Ancillary Buildings
Listing Date: 3 August 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 351154
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB17265
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Penpont Village, Marrburn Road, Joseph Thomson Cottage
ID on this website: 200351154
Location: Penpont
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid and Upper Nithsdale
Parish: Penpont
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Mid 19th century, possibly re-fronted later 19th century. Single storey 3-bay cottage. Squared and stugged coursed pink sandstone with red ashlar dressings. Inscribed stone panel to right of door (see Notes). Tabbed openings; long and short quoins to right. Cast-iron lights to roof.
Plate glass in timber sash and case windows. Corniced end stacks with octagonal and circular cans. Grey slate roof. Saw-toothed skews.
ANCILLARY BUILDINGS: red sandstone pump housing adjoining retaining wall to rear; recess with copper boiler. Curved stone steps leading to slated pitch-roofed stone building with finialled gable and saw-toothed skews (see Notes). Small slated, pitch-roofed stone building (former piggery) with plain stone skew; slated brick privy adjoining.
INTERIOR: enclosures for box beds. Stone cantilevered stair to attic.
Listed for historical interest and for the unusually intact interior and the survival of ancillary features such as the pump housing and the piggery. Stone panel inscribed 'In this house Joseph Thomson the Explorer was born on the 14th of February 1858.' After studying at the University of Edinburgh Thomson explored routes in Kenya and Tanzania, in Nigeria and in
Morocco; Thomson's Gazelle is named after him. Thomson's father was a stone mason, and the stone detailing of the cottage is of unusually high quality. The stone building adjoining to rear is said to have housed the arms of the local militia and still contains the racks which housed these (unseen 2002). Up-graded C(S) to B March 2002.
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