Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan Cottage-Ornee with half-piended roof and overhanging eaves with exposed rafters. Squared red granite courses, roughly pointed with concrete.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay, 2-pane glazed upper door to centre, single window to bay to left. Half-gabled bay to right, broad window to ground, small square window to gablehead.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: half-gabled bay to left, elevation obscured by flat-roofed modern addition.

(SIDE) ELEVATION: blank gable end, tall wallhead stack breaking eaves.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window to centre of gable end.

Modern, fixed pane plate glass windows. Grey slates, lead flashing.

INTERIOR: not seen 2002

Statement of Interest

Possible sources for the cottage's design can be found in the profusion of villa pattern books published in the early nineteenth century. The asymmetrical design and the roof's oversailing eaves suggest publications such as Robert Lugar's The Country Gentleman's Architect, 1807 and Architectural Sketches for Cottages, Rural Dwellings and Villas, 1811 or John Claudius Loudon's A Treatise on Forming, Improving and Managing Country Residences, 1806. Particular attention appears to have been paid to John Plaw's Sketches for Country Houses, Villas and Rural Dwellings published in 1800. The villas illustrated in Plates II and XXXVIII both continue the pattern of hipped roof and overhanging or sailing eave, typical of the emerging

Picturesque or Cottage Ornee style most famously typified by the villas of John Nash, for example Cronkhill, Salop, 1802. Probably originally associated with the Tillypronie estate.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56617678

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Devon (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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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets