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Latitude: 55.6142 / 55°36'51"N
Longitude: -4.6629 / 4°39'46"W
OS Eastings: 232383
OS Northings: 638836
OS Grid: NS323388
Mapcode National: GBR 38.M91Y
Mapcode Global: WH2P3.B4TY
Plus Code: 9C7QJ87P+MR
Entry Name: Museum, 4 Glasgow Vennel, Irvine
Listing Name: 4 Glasgow Vennel, Burns Lodging House
Listing Date: 26 February 1980
Last Amended: 6 February 2018
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379997
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35415
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200379997
Location: Irvine
County: North Ayrshire
Town: Irvine
Electoral Ward: Irvine West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Late 18th century, late 20th century restoration. Single storey, 3-bay cottage. Rubble with rendered margins, eaves course and cornice. Round-arched and keystoned door at centre with impost blocks and decorative semicircular fanlight, 2-leaf boarded doors, windows flanking widely spaced. 2-light piend-roofed, slate-hung dormer to left.
Timber sash and case windows, small-pane over 2-pane sashes. Flush rooflights in grey slate roof. Rendered gablehead stacks.
Robert Burns was a flax dresser in Irvine and Groome reports that he was sent here in midsummer 1781 to learn the trade under a Mr Peacock, kinsman of his mother. He took lodging of one small room for a shilling a week in this cottage, until 1783, hence the name. The house is open to the public.
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