Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay detached cottage-detailed villa, with single storey wing to outer right. Ashlar; rubble and painted harl to sides. Base course; central dividing string course; timber eaves (shaped to central gable).

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central, shallow advanced, shouldered doorpiece; 2-leaf timber door; small-paned letterbox fanlight; consoled pierced balcony over; single window aligned above at 1st floor; shield to gablehead. Shallow advanced gabled bays flanking; tripartite windows at ground floor; single windows at 1st floor. Quadripartite window to single storey gabled wing to outer right.

NW ELEVATION: gabled; blank; harled addition adjoining to outer left.

NE AND SE ELEVATIONS: not seen 1999.

Predominantly lying-pane and 12-pane timber sash and case windows; small-paned windows to single storey section to right. Slate roof; corniced ridge and pitch stacks; polygonal cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

GATEPIERS, GATE AND BOUNDARY WALL: square-plan gatepiers; single timber gate; coped rubble boundary wall enclosing site.

Statement of Interest

Marked on 1st edition Ordnance Survey map as Millerfield Cottage. Good example of cottage-detailed mid 19th century architecture. Of particular note are the consoled pierced 1st floor balcony and the barge-boarded gables.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626062

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)