Description

Dated 1878. Single storey and attic 3-bay cottage with
single storey, 3-bay former workshop adjoined and
slightly recessed; rectangular plan. Squared and
snecked red sandstone with stugged ashlar dressings and
droved, chamfered reveals. Segmentally arched openings;
stone mullions.
W ELEVATION: cottage to N. Gabled porch with modern
infill at centre. Bipartites flanking. Small gablet
skylight at centre with cusped timber surround. Attic
windows breaking eaves in outer bays, with half-piended
gabled dormerheads; bipartite windows. 3-bay former
workshop to S, with bipartites to left and at centre, and
tall, wide doorway to outer right, breaking eaves for
dovecot in half-piended gablehead with 2 tiers of
flight-holes.
N ELEVATION: 2 single windows widely spaced at ground;
date diamond panel in gable wallhead.
E ELEVATION: half-piended roof to gable-end. Small-pane
or 4-pane glazing patterns to sash and case windows.
Grey slate roofs; lead flashings. Deeply overhanging
eaves to cottage, porch and gabled dormerheads with
decorative timber brackets and scalloped barge boarding.
Decorative wrought and cast-iron finials, and weathervane
to dovecot. Copes gable end stacks to cottage. Lean-to modern
garage projecting at oblique angle by former workshop door.

Statement of Interest

Possibly designed by John Farquharson, architect of

Haddington, who carried out other notable work on the

Whittingehame Estate about this time.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17793593

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)