Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey (1st floor breaking eaves), 3-bay, L-plan house in estate style, gabled timber dormers with bargeboards, cross bracing and distinctive margined, diamond-pane, glazing pattern. Pentice canopies with console brackets to windows. Whinstone rubble with droved red sandstone quoins and window margins. Lean to slated open timber porch to side.

Timber and lead margined diamond pane glazing pattern to principal elevation, various patterned and plain timber casements to rear. Overhanging timber bracketed eaves, bands of plain and fishtail grey slates. Quadruple, angled corniced central ridge stack, with part-shafted flues with decorative clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

The Cottage is a good example of the estate architecture retaining some fine stone details and a distinctive glazing pattern and making a strong contribution to the village streetscape. The building survives in its original plan form with few exterior alterations, although when first built it was possibly 2 separate dwellings.

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 whether he carried out the commission for the shooting lodge which became Lamington House or whether the job was completed by someone else. The architects Wardrop and Brown are known to have carried out a music room addition in 1858.

The carved 'ABC' stone to a left side quoin is the initials of Anabella Baillie Cochrane. Later 20th century double garage to garden.

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

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17853611

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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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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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)