Description

Mid 19th century with later additions. Single storey with attic, 4-bay central block with single storey, 2-bay flanking wings forming symmetrical 8-bay block (each cottage 4-bay); single storey additions at rear. Squared and snecked tooled sandstone; timber bargeboards. Stugged quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to lightly droved, stop-chamfered margins; sandstone mullions to bipartites; projecting cills.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central block with single windows at ground off-set to left and right of centre; bipartite windows at ground in bays to outer left and right; gabled bipartite dormers (breaking eaves) centred above, timber finials. Flanking wings with boarded timber doors in bays to right and left respectively; 2-pane fanlights; single windows in bays to outer left and right.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 1998.

4-pane upper, plate glass lower glazing in timber sash and case windows to front. Grey slate roofs; cast-iron rainwater goods. Brick apex stacks; circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

A prominently sited pair of farmworkers' cottages which have retained their symmetrical arrangement and much of their original detailing. See separate list entry for nearby Crowfootbank Farmhouse.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata IDs Q77772929 Q77772934

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)