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Latitude: 55.7141 / 55°42'50"N
Longitude: -2.2449 / 2°14'41"W
OS Eastings: 384709
OS Northings: 646766
OS Grid: NT847467
Mapcode National: GBR D2RC.SH
Mapcode Global: WH9YM.HM6W
Plus Code: 9C7VPQ74+J2
Entry Name: 8 Farm Cottages, Swinton Hill
Listing Name: 1 - 8 (Inclusive Nos) Swinton Hill Farm Cottages Including Ancillary Structures and Garden Wall
Listing Date: 25 September 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392740
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45756
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392740
Location: Swinton
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Parish: Swinton
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Mid 19th century with later alterations. 3 separate ranges of 2-storey cottages linked by tall rubble walls (rear elevations of ancillary structures). Nos 1 & 2: 4-bay; Nos 3, 4, 5 & 6: 8 bay; Nos 7 & 8: 4 bay. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone; droved sandstone dressings. Droved quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings; sandstone mullions to canted windows; projecting cills. Gabled and skewputted dormers breaking eaves throughout.
SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION, NOS 1 & 2: each cottage comprising boarded timber door in bay to right; letterbox fanlight; stop chamfered surround; gabled window breaking eaves above. Canted window at ground in bay to left; gabled window breaking eaves above. Square-headed opening and tall rubble wall to right linking adjacent lower range. NOS 3, 4, 5 & 6: each cottage comprising timber door at ground in bay to left (part-glazed doors to Nos 3, 4 & 6); single window above. Canted window at ground in bay to right; gabled dormer breaking eaves above. Tall rubble wall and square-headed opening to right linking adjacent range. NOS 7 & 8: each cottage comprising timber door at ground in bay to left (part glazed door to No 7); single window above. Canted window at ground in bay to right; gabled dormer breaking eaves above. Lean-to addition recessed to outer right No 8.
NW (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated, projecting gabled wing to rear of each cottage. Ancillary structures (forming screen walls to front) set between and linking each range.
2-, 4- and 6-pane upper, plate and 2-pane lower timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roofs; raised stone skews; cast-iron rainwater goods. Regularly spaced corniced ridge and apex stacks; octagonal cans.
INTERIORS: not seen 1998.
GARDEN WALL: continuous rubble-coped rubble wall enclosing garden front.
Modestly detailed and relatively intact, these simple farmworkers' cottages are good examples of their type. See separate list entry for nearby Swinton Hill Farmhouse.
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