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3 Damdale, Peebles

A Category B Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.654 / 55°39'14"N

Longitude: -3.1916 / 3°11'29"W

OS Eastings: 325118

OS Northings: 640692

OS Grid: NT251406

Mapcode National: GBR 6342.T1

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.Y4CX

Plus Code: 9C7RMR35+H9

Entry Name: 3 Damdale, Peebles

Listing Name: 3 Damdale with Boundary Wall and Gate

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384746

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39161

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Peebles, 3 Damdale

ID on this website: 200384746

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

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Description

Circa 1890. Picturesque single storey and attic 3-bay L-plan suburban cottage with later additions. Whinstone with cream sandstone dressings. Overhanging eaves with exposed rafters; stop-chamfered arrises; ground floor windows hard under eaves.

E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled open timber porch at centre with foliate S-scrolled bargeboarding, bracing and finials; panelled door with 3-pane fanlight and bolection-moulded architrave. Gabled bay to left; flat-roofed 2-sided canted window at ground with ashlar mullions and transoms, pierced frieze and cornice; single window in gablehead. To right, window at ground; gabled timber dormer with vine leaf bargeboarding and finial. Modern dry-dash flat-roofed garage attached to outer right.

S (CROSS ROAD) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Each bay with window at ground and small gabled timber dormer; left dormer with bowed 12-pane window and bargeboarding of pierced scrollwork; right dormer with 2-pane canted window and columns, Gothic fretted bargeboarding; tall finials. Shouldered wallhead stack at centre.

N ELEVATION: blank gable to left obscured by garage at ground. Extension to right.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: gable to right with window in gablehead; at centre, lean-to back porch with gabled door; to left, extension at ground and large slate-hung box-dormer.

4-pane timber sash and case windows. Grey slates, fish-scaled to dormers; whinstone stacks with sandstone dressings and coping; octagonal cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATE: low sandstone base for (removed) railings; decorative timber pedestrian gate to front door with chevron boarding and scrolled ironwork upper panel.

Statement of Interest

The timber detailing is outstanding for its quality and variety, and this house is marred only by the out-of-character additions.

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