Description

Early 19th century. 2-storey and attic, 3-bay traditional plain classical house. Random granite rubble finely finished to margins. Base course; projecting cills; long and short dressings; strip quoins; eaves course.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; architraved and consoled doorway, panelled timber door in pilastered surround, with letterbox fanlight, 3 stone steps so door; window to each flanking bay at ground floor; regular fenestration to 1st floor; 2 canted 3-light dormers to left and right of attic floor.

W ELEVATION: gabled; blank.

S ELEVATION: not seen 1999.

E ELEVATION: gabled, blank.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slate roof with lead ridge. Stone skews. Coped ashlar stacks with circular cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low coped granite wall to N; high rubble wall to W with pointed coping, brick coping to E, square-plan granite terminating piers with pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

Woodbine Cottage is one of the few surviving traditional detached houses in this area, with most of the original detailing intact.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56625289

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]