Townfoot Cottage, Lamington, Clydesdale East, South Lanarkshire

Entry Name: Townfoot Cottage, Lamington

Listing Name: Lamington, Townfoot Cottage

Listing Date: 17 January 1975

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 400564

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB51672

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200400564

Location: Lamington and Wandel

County: South Lanarkshire

Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East

Parish: Lamington And Wandel

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Cottage

Description

Mid 19th century. Single storey, 4-bay, T-plan cottage in estate style with advanced stone gabled bay to penultimate right, timber-bracketed overhanging eaves at gables with cross bracing and delicate timber finials to apexes. Whinstone rubble with droved sandstone quoins, painted pentice canopies and painted cills. Timber boarded porch to re-entrant angle at rear. Small flat roof infill addition to SE (rear) corner.

8-pane, lying-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Plain boarded doors. Grey slates. Shouldered diamond-plan shafted ridge and gable stacks.

Statement of Interest

A good example of a single storey cottage in estate style likely to be one of the earliest built in the village development, showing details characteristic of others houses in the village. It lies to the end of the main street and its street elevation is almost the same as Townhead Cottage which lies to the far end, suggesting they were the first two to be built.

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.

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).

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