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Braehead Cottages, 22 Cardross Road, Dumbarton

A Category B Listed Building in Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9476 / 55°56'51"N

Longitude: -4.5849 / 4°35'5"W

OS Eastings: 238678

OS Northings: 675743

OS Grid: NS386757

Mapcode National: GBR 0L.Y7Z6

Mapcode Global: WH3NJ.JRXW

Plus Code: 9C7QWCX8+22

Entry Name: Braehead Cottages, 22 Cardross Road, Dumbarton

Listing Name: 20, 22 Cardross Road, Braehead Cottages

Listing Date: 3 March 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 360974

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24869

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dumbarton, 22 Cardross Road, Braehead Cottages

ID on this website: 200360974

Location: Dumbarton

County: West Dunbartonshire

Town: Dumbarton

Electoral Ward: Dumbarton

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

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Description

Charles Ross of Greenlaw, architect. Late 18th century.
Symmetrically planned single storey farm cottages. Gothick.
Originally 3 cottages in U-plan, now 2 parallel cottages, and
only facade of central cottage survives. Limewashed rubble.
Each cottage 3 bays, gable towards road, central ogival
headed-doorway with columned jambs to each, flanked by
pointed windows with blocked label stops; 2 incised crosses
flanking blocked quatrefoil in gable-head above string
course; original gable crenellations removed from No. 22.
Banded clustered columns at angles; pinnacled gables. Slated
roofs. Former central cottage (now only a screen wall) also
3 bays, broader, but similarly treated.

Statement of Interest

Formerly known as "Foule Hole". Built as farm cottages on the

Ardoch estate.

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