Description

Later 19th century. Small, symmetrical, single storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, cottage with stone gabled dormers flanking central stone-based timber and glazed porch to centre. Distinctive lying-pane glazing pattern in timber mullioned windows. Timber-bracketed, overhanging eaves and dormer details with timber finials. Whinstone rubble and sandstone quoins.

Lying-pane glazing pattern in timber mullioned windows under horizontal top lights. Half-glazed timber entrance doors. Plain clay tile roof with two-hole ornamental ridge tiles. Single squared ashlar ridge stacks with plain clay cans.

Statement of Interest

Ashley Cottage is a good example of an estate building within the planned village, with picturesque detailing and makes a strong contribution to the village streetscape. The cottage is the only example in the village to have a tiled roof, all other examples are slate. The 1st edition map shows a similar sized cottage on the site closer to the road with a long range perpendicular to the street called 'Midtown', all of which were demolished to build Ashley.

In 1838 Alexander Cochrane MP (b1816), grandson of the Earl of Dundonald, inherited the Baillie family estate of Lamington at which time he took on its name to become Alexander Baillie Cochrane. He became Lord Lamington in 1883. Baillie-Cochrane inherited a modest estate and set about rebuilding it from 1844 following his marriage to Anabella Drummond, and began by making large additions to the existing shooting lodge in Elizabethan style to form the, now demolished, Lamington House. At the time Lamington village was a series of bothies stretched along the old roadside to the south of the House. He set about building a new village in a programme of improvements to the NE of the house with the earliest building dating to the 1840s and the latest to the 1870s. At this time the main road was redirected to the NW between the two gate lodges to afford privacy to Lamington House and Estate. These village buildings survive today and maintain the character of a planned estate village as they were designed.

The architect of the village is not known however it is thought William Spence (1806?-1883) may have been involved in the building of some of the village estate buildings. He built Coulter Mains house in the adjacent Coulter Parish. Spence worked as an assistant to both David Bryce and William Burn and, the first house with which he was associated, Coulter Mains house, bears elements of the Burn and Bryce school. There are elements of design in the estate houses of the village which also have these characteristics.

The Lamington Papers held in the Mitchell Archive include a letter from Architect David Bryce in 1838 stating that he encloses his revised, scaled down plans for the shooting lodge at Lamington. It is not known Fpenryn

carried out a music room addition in 1858.

Formerly listed as 'Lamington Village, Various Cottages and Former Post Office' at category B. Revised as a separate listing and category changed to C(S) following resurvey (2010).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77781909

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)