Description

Earlier 19th century double-fronted single storey cottage (former tollhouse); with basement and attic (2 storeys to rear). Later extension to rear. Sandstone ashlar; rendered rubble to sides and rear. Band course to eaves. Overhanging eaves at gables. Raised window surrounds 2-leaf timber panelled door and modern inner door. Modern 2-light windows. Small central rooflight to front; small rooflight and large modern rooflight to rear. Pitched roof of graded grey slates; piended to rear extension. 2 stone gablehead stacks with modern cans; small brick wallhead stack to extension. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: coved ceiling, simple cornices and timber linings and shutters in front rooms; boarded ceilings and boarded doors to attic rooms

Pitched roof stone-built former washhouse (now garage) to rear. low boundary wall with chamfered coping. Square gate piers.

Statement of Interest

Around 1836 the Edinburgh to Ayr Turnpike Road was opened and this building and the West Bar tollhouse are presumed to have been built at the same time. The West Bar tollhouse also survives but is much altered. Meadowside cottage is, therefore, an important building in the development of Stonehouse and one of the few earlier 19th century buildings in this part of the village. The formality of the design and the use of fine ashlar are also notable compared to the other buildings of a similar vintage. The cottage is in a prominent position on the main road into Stonehouse and still defines the boundary of the village. Although the windows have been replaced, the front elevation retains its original character.

It is the opinion of the owner that the road formerly went to the South of the tollhouse and the 1st O.S. map suggests that a road may have branched off the present Lockhart St. An early road surface was found in the garden to the South of the house. There was originally a stair to the garden level from the entrance floor and this appears on O.S. 1st ed. (c 1864) the extension had been built by O.S. 2nd ed. (c.1898). The basement level of the cottage appears to have been used for housing animals as a stone trough and tethering rings are known to have existed. The wash-house is later 19th century.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77780623

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