Description

Earlier 19th century, incorporating earlier fabric. Single storey and attic picturesque gabled Tudor detailed cottage; cream sandstone rubble. U-plan with small internal court.

SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: 3 symmetrical bays with further bay set slightly back to left; hoodmoiulds. Principal block with advanced gabled central bay; door at ground with flanking narrow lights under single stepped hoodmould; single window in gable; flanking bays with tripartite bow windows flat-roofed bow with single window gabled stone dormers breaking eaves. Left bay with small single window.

NE ELEVATION: blank gable-end to left with blocked window in gable; 2 bays to right with single and bipartite windows at ground, and single windows in gabled stone wallhead dormers above. Set back to right modern garden room fronting double garage.

SW ELEVATION: gable-end to right with small window in gable; low harled service range to left with 2 doors, shuttered opening, pair of arrowslits and pair of modern garages to far left.

NW ELEVATION: not seen 1993, but largely obscured by service wing. 12-pane timber sash and case windows, plate glass at ground to front. New red tiled roof with solid timber bargeboards and eaves; harled stacks.

INTERIOR: not seen 1933.

GATES AND GATEPIERS: 3 square ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps and wrought-iron gates; flanked by short stretch of dwarf wall with similar railings.

Statement of Interest

The house is said locally to have been built for a mistress of the Marquess of Lothian. It was thatched in the 19th century. The 1st edition OS Map 1859 shows a lodge at the gates; a small barn survives near this site, and the drive to the house incorporates a bridge.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56619924

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)