Description

Late 19th century. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, T-plan cottage. Squared and snecked granite with ashlar dressings. Panelled door to centre with stone bracketted cornice and letterbox fanlight. Canted windows flanking at ground. 2 canted, piend-roofed slate-hung dormers above to attic with billet moulding. Sash and case windows with 4-pane glazing pattern. Grey slates, ashlar coped skews with moulded skewputts, coped ashlar stacks with decorative cans. Low ashlar coped wall to front garden with decorative, cast-iron railings and gate; rubble coped, rubble walls to side.

Statement of Interest

Listed as a good example of a traditional type and for group value. Gowanlea forms a row with Kinnairdy Lodge and Laurelbank, South Street, to the W. 51 South Street is of the same type. It does not appear on the 1871-4 OS Map.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56624760

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)