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Farm Workers' Cottage, The Hardens

A Category C Listed Building in Mid Berwickshire, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.778 / 55°46'40"N

Longitude: -2.3954 / 2°23'43"W

OS Eastings: 375295

OS Northings: 653918

OS Grid: NT752539

Mapcode National: GBR C1QM.6L

Mapcode Global: WH8X7.51LC

Plus Code: 9C7VQJH3+5R

Entry Name: Farm Workers' Cottage, The Hardens

Listing Name: The Hardens, Farm Workers' Cottages

Listing Date: 6 February 1996

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 389125

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42601

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200389125

Location: Langton

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire

Parish: Langton

Traditional County: Berwickshire

Tagged with: Farm labourers cottage

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Description

Later 19th century. Picturesque row of 3 terraced traditional single storey farm workers? cottages each of 3 bays. Squared and snecked sandstone with stop-chamfered droved ashlar arrises. Eaves course.

E ELEVATION: shoulder-arched gabled (with ball finial) stone porch to centre of each cottage; boarded door with 2-pane fanlight above. Timber mullioned bipartite window to each flanking bay. Timber mullioned bipartite gabled dormer above each.

W ELEVATION: harled lean-to addition to centre of each cottage.

Lying-pane timber sash and case windows. Red-tiled roof incorporating bands of fish-scale tiles; ornamental ridge cresting. Brick mutual and wallhead stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1995.

Statement of Interest

The cottages are a fine example of a common building type, with decorative ornamentation. They share similar design details as found at Langton Kennelman?s House (see separate listing). The cottages are presently uninhabited and falling into disrepair, 1995.

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