Description

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.

Statement of Interest

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.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17829703

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)