Description

Dated 1886. Single storey and attic 3-bay double cottage with carved ornament. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings; long and short rock-faced quoins; stop-chamfered arrises; panelled lintels.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: pair of doors at centre (that to right panelled) with letterbox fanlights; lintels with carved husk swags and rosettes; panelled date stone above 1886. Bipartite box-dormer above. Canted window to right with cornice and blocking course; carved foliate decoration to lintels; framed panel above inscribed ALEXANDER COTTAGE. Bipartite window to left; lintel carved with gadrooned scrolls; framed panel above inscribed MARION COTTAGE. Outer bays with piend-roofed

canted timber dormers. Blank gables to E and W. At rear, projecting gabled single storey and attic bay to No 21.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows (2-pane upper sashes to left at ground). Grey slates; ashlar coped skews; coped sandstone apex stacks.

Statement of Interest

23 and 25 March Street have very similar decorative lintels.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645092

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)