Description

Mid 18th century. Single storey and garret, rectangular-plan 3-bay cottage with adjoining single bay barn. Harled. Rubble base course.

NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; doorway to centre of cottage, flanked to left and right by small window, 2 2-pane skylights symmetrically place to garret. Barn adjoining to left, central doorway, 2-pane and 3-pane skylights symmetrically placed to garret.

SW ELEVATION: asymmetrical; gabled; single doorway off-centre to left of ground floor.

SE ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 2 window openings to centre of ground floor, 3 3-pane regularly placed skylights to cottage.

NE ELEVATION: blank.

9-pane timber windows, panes missing in places. Purple grey slate roof with tiled ridge, missing to barn and SW of cottage. Stone skews with simple skewputts. Coped, harled gablehead and ridge stack to cottage. Rainwater goods no longer in place.

INTERIOR: cottage converted to barn, concrete feeding troughs.

Statement of Interest

Despite the decaying condition of Milton, it survives virtually complete as one of the oldest cottages on the Ballogie Estate. The traditional form with barn adjoining make it particularly interesting. It is reached by a tiny picturesque bridge over the Burn of Cattie (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q79338284

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)