Description

Dated 1872. Single storey symmetrical terraced group of 3, 3-bay farm cottages. Stugged, sqaured and snecked warm red sandstone; ashlar dressings; cill course, stone mullions and hoodmoulds to E elevation.

E ELEVATION; 9-bay. Timber bracketted piended canopy to doorway at centre, flanked by tripartite windows; bays flanking again, gabled and advanced, with 4-light windows and panels at apex (that to right dated 1872). Further doorways in penultimate bays, without canopies, and bipartite windows in outer bays.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: each with low gabled coal-shed projecting at centre.

E ELEVATION: catslide projections to each cottage, extended later with harled porch additions.

Large square-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Strip fanlights to doorways. End and mutual gable stacks with moulded caps. Purple slates; timber baregboards. Nos 3 and 4 with regrettable double glazed double swing windows, modern dormer and velux windows (1990)

Statement of Interest

Particularly picturesque examples of post Improvement farm cottages,lining road to W of Mainshill Farm.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17809100

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)