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Hawthorne Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan

A Category B Listed Building in Longforgan, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4574 / 56°27'26"N

Longitude: -3.119 / 3°7'8"W

OS Eastings: 331133

OS Northings: 730031

OS Grid: NO311300

Mapcode National: GBR VG.05DQ

Mapcode Global: WH6Q4.2Y0L

Plus Code: 9C8RFV4J+X9

Entry Name: Hawthorne Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan

Listing Name: Longforgan, Main Street, Hawthorne Cottage

Listing Date: 5 October 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346394

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13276

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200346394

Location: Longforgan

County: Perth and Kinross

Electoral Ward: Carse of Gowrie

Parish: Longforgan

Traditional County: Perthshire

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Description

Late 18th century. Single storey, three-bay cottage with later addition to rear. Rubble, coped skews, reed thatched roof with concrete ridge. Ashlar margins to door and windows. Four-pane sash and case windows. Brick chimney stack on gablehead.

Statement of Interest

Later two-storey house adjoining this cottage to the west.

The previous listed building record (written in 1971) noted that the building had straw thatch at this time. The SPAB survey notes that in 2014 it was thatched with reed and has a concrete ridge.

It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.

Listed building record revised in 2019 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review 2017-19.

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