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Latitude: 55.7804 / 55°46'49"N
Longitude: -2.2154 / 2°12'55"W
OS Eastings: 386590
OS Northings: 654144
OS Grid: NT865541
Mapcode National: GBR D1ZL.5Q
Mapcode Global: WH9Y7.YZ71
Plus Code: 9C7VQQJM+5V
Entry Name: Smiddy Cottage, Main Street, Allanton
Listing Name: Allanton, Smiddy Cottage
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 391001
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44464
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200391001
Location: Edrom
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: East Berwickshire
Parish: Edrom
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Later 19th century with later additions and alterations. Single storey with attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan cottage terminating terrace. Cement rendered with whinstone and sandstone rubble to rear with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; Tudor-style hoodmoulds to each opening to principal elevation; rusticated quoins.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: boarded door to centre with 2-pane fanlight above. Window to each flanking bay.
S ELEVATION: gabled with window at ground and attic to right.
W ELEVATION: not seen fully, 1996. Lean-to glazed addition to centre; lean-to addition in bay to left; blank bay to right.
6-pane timber sash and case windows to E and S elevations. Slate roof with purple slate fishscale bands to E. Coped ashlar skews with scroll-bracketed skewputts. Modern box dormer at centre of W pitch. Brick wallhead stack to apex of S elevation.
INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.
The smithy lies to the W and is now incorporated within a modern property. The forge is still in place. The smithy closed down in circa 1960 and was converted in 1972. Adjoins inextricably the similarly detailed 2-storey Ardshiel (see separate listing), terminating an irregular terrace.
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