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Latitude: 55.6408 / 55°38'26"N
Longitude: -2.3464 / 2°20'47"W
OS Eastings: 378292
OS Northings: 638635
OS Grid: NT782386
Mapcode National: GBR D316.TR
Mapcode Global: WH8XT.XHT1
Plus Code: 9C7VJMR3+8C
Entry Name: Dub Cottage, Birgham
Listing Name: Birgham, Dub Cottage
Listing Date: 1 February 1999
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392890
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45864
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392890
Location: Eccles
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Parish: Eccles
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Later to late 19th century with later additions and alterations. Single storey, 3-bay gabled cottage with projecting porch; columned verandah clasping S corner; lean-to addition recessed to left. Cream sandstone rubble; droved sandstone dressings. Overhanging timber bracketed eaves; timber bargeboards. Droved quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings; sandstone mullions and narrow side lights to tripartites; projecting cills throughout.
NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single window in gabled porch advanced at centre; boarded timber door in return to right. Tripartite windows in bays recessed to left and right. Lean-to addition recessed to outer left.
SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: main house with single window at ground to left. Timber door in bay recessed to right; iron-columned verandah to front.
SE (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Single window in gabled bay recessed at centre. Tripartite window in larger, gabled bay advanced to outer right. Gabled bay advanced to outer left with tripartite window at centre; lean-to addition to right; iron-columned verandah to front.
NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: main house with lean-to addition to right; single window to left. Blind elevation to gabled wing to left.
Predominantly 9-pane upper, 4-pane lower glazing in timber sash and case windows. Purple-grey slate roof; part-glazed slate roof to verandah. Iron rainwater goods. Corniced brick ridge and apex stacks; circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Owned by the Hirsel estate. A relatively late cottage which has retained good details. The iron-columned verandah is particularly notable. The nearby river is called 'Birgham Dub' - hence the cottage's unusual name.
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