Description

Circa 1860. Single storey, symmetrical pair of cottages
incorporating fabric of earlier buildings, and originally
designed as 3. Squared and snecked, stugged pink rubble
with ashlar dressings chamfered arrises, segmental lintels
to openings.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: each 3-bay. Bracketted gabled
canopy to door at centre; 2-pane fanlight and boarded
door; windows in flanking bays.
E ELEVATION: 5-bay. 3 windows to centre bays; slightly
advanced, gabled outer bays with hoodmoulded bipartite
windows and square blank panels in apex.
W ELEVATION: 5-bay. Gabled porch advanced at centre,
with doorways on return sides and window to W.
Windows in flanking bays; advanced outer bays gabled
with single windows.
6-pane glazing pattern to sash and case windows. Timber
eaves brackets and decorative brackets and barge
boarding to door canopies. Purple slates. Coped ridge
stacks.

Statement of Interest

Signs of earlier masonry evident on cottages, which assume

site of those on 1854 OS map. Partially terraced gardens on

ground falling to E, with rubble coped rubble retaining

walls.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792491

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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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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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)