Description

Circa 1860-70. 2-storey, 3-bay picturesque gardener's cottage. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Mullioned windows at 1st floor, lying-pane glazing 4 over 6 panes at ground, single over 2 vertically-placed panes at 1st floor. Overhanging, timber-bracketted eaves, cast-iron finials to gables, weather-vane to circular, conical-roofed stair tower at rear. Grey slates, corniced ashlar central ridge stack. FRONT ELEVATION: steeply-pitched, gabled porch at centre with shouldered-arched entrance, timber-boarded door with ornamental cast-iron hinges. 1st floor bipartite windows breaking eaves, with gabled dormerheads with studded bargeboards.

REAR: lean-to kitchen addition to left, stair tower in re-entrant angle. Low, ashlar coped garden wall, rubble walls enclosing garden.

Statement of Interest

Formerly the gardener's cottage. Particularly notable is the survival of all the gable finials and the weather-vane.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56624068

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)