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Ratho Cottage, 40 Rosetta Road, Peebles

A Category C Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.655 / 55°39'18"N

Longitude: -3.1964 / 3°11'46"W

OS Eastings: 324819

OS Northings: 640814

OS Grid: NT248408

Mapcode National: GBR 6331.SN

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.W433

Plus Code: 9C7RMR43+2F

Entry Name: Ratho Cottage, 40 Rosetta Road, Peebles

Listing Name: 40 Rosetta Road, Ratho Cottage, with Boundary Wall

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384880

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39260

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200384880

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

1886. 2-storey 3-bay house. Whinstone with cream sandstone dressings; heavily stugged long and short quoins and tabbed margins. Stop-chamfered arrises.

W ELEVATION: panelled door at centre with plate glass letterbox fanlight; lintel carved with RATHO COTTAGE and guilloche moulding; panelled datestone 1886 above with terracotta heads in corners and rope moulding; flanked by windows at ground with decorative carved lintels. Windows hard under eaves to all bays at 1st floor.

Blank gable ends, later door at ground to N.

Timber 4-pane sash and case windows (plate glass lower sashes at 1st floor). Grey slates; ashlar coped skews with gablet skewputts; corniced whinstone apex stacks with sandstone dressings; some octagonal cans.

BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble wall to front with saddleback ashlar coping and later railings.

Statement of Interest

The carved detailing is of particular quality.

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