Description

Circa 1820. Tall single storey and attic, 2-bay, L-plan cottage with cottage orne references, timber-mullioned leaded windows and steeply-pitched jerkin-headed gables. Harled.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Slightly advanced bays flanking centre, each with 4-light window to ground and 3-light oriel window on decorative timber brackets above abutting jerkin-headed roof. Tall ridge stack to centre.

NE ELEVATION: advanced gable to left with 3-light window to ground, and door on return to right with 2 small windows in lower slate-hung gable; further door in lower recessed bay to right.

SW ELEVATION: door to outer left of gabled bay to right with window in lower bay to left.

Multi-pane diamond-pattern leaded glazing in casement windows. Grey slates. Coped harled stack with vertically-banded decoration close to cope. Plain bargeboarding and deeply-overhanging eaves

Statement of Interest

Group with Wemyss Castle and The Courtyard. A good example of the type of estate cottages suggested by architect-authors such as J B Bapworth and John Claudius Loudon in their publications.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810480

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)