Description

Later 19th century. Single storey and attic, 3 bay, L plan cottage with adjoining outbuilding. Coursed, stugged pink sandstone with droved dressings. Base course; decorative surrounds; stop chamfered reveals; eaves course; raised margins.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled porch advanced to centre bay of ground floor with segmental arched doorway and panelled timber door; window to left and right returns; eaves cornice; stone roof. Regular fenestration to flanking left and right bays of ground floor. 20th century box dormers above.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; window off centre to right of ground floor; bull?s eye window set in gablehead.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 bay. Window off centre to right of left bay. Advanced, single storey, gabled bay to right; small window set in larger surround off centre to right; boarded timber door with letter box fanlight to re entrant angle to left return, flanked to right by 2 windows. 2 windows to right return.

S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 windows off centre to left of ground floor; bull's eye window set in gablehead.

Predominantly replacement 2 pane uPVC windows with top hoppers. Graded grey slate roof with lead ridge; coped stone skews with moulded skewputts. Stugged, corniced gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

OUTBUILDING AND WALLS: single storey, bull faced pink sandstone outbuilding attached to W of cottage by bull faced coped sandstone walls. Long and short droved dressings; irregular fenestration; boarded timber doors; graded grey slate piended roof with lead ridges. Rubble boundary walls with rubble coping to W, N and E of house.

Statement of Interest

Built as the keepers' house for Rosebery Reservoir. Well detailed cottage retaining many original features except the windows.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77773294

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5