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Blackadder Cottage, Main Street, Allanton

A Category C Listed Building in Edrom, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7827 / 55°46'57"N

Longitude: -2.2162 / 2°12'58"W

OS Eastings: 386535

OS Northings: 654402

OS Grid: NT865544

Mapcode National: GBR D1YK.ZW

Mapcode Global: WH9Y7.XXT7

Plus Code: 9C7VQQMM+3G

Entry Name: Blackadder Cottage, Main Street, Allanton

Listing Name: Allanton, Blackadder Cottage and Screen Wall

Listing Date: 26 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 390992

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44456

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200390992

Location: Edrom

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: East Berwickshire

Parish: Edrom

Traditional County: Berwickshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Later 19th century with later additions and alterations. Single storey with attic, 2-bay cottage terminating terrace, to S. Stugged sandstone ashlar with droved ashlar dressings; squared and snecked sandstone to N. Dog-tooth eaves course; stop chamfered arrises.

E (STREET) ELEVATION: corniced with tablet doorway in bay to left with deep-set panelled door, 2-pane rectangular fanlight. Bipartite window in bay to right set in corniced with tablet architrave.

W ELEVATION: not seen, 1996.

4-lying-pane timber sash and case windows to bipartite. Purple slated roof with alternating green fishscale slate bands. Round-arched window to each bay at attic, in brick gabled dormerhead. Ashlar coped skew to N with skewputt. Brick 2-flue gablehead stack to N.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.

SCREEN WALL: squared and snecked stugged ashlar coped wall to outer right, screening single storey harled addition projecting to N with pantiled lean-to roof.

Statement of Interest

The ornamental slating of this building would suggest that it was built as part of the Blackadder estate.

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