Description

Mid-19^th century with later 19^th century additions at rear. Symmetrical row of four, three-bay, single storey farm cottages of improvement era. Squared and snecked red rubble sandstone with stugged ashlar dressings with droved borders.

Each cottage with doorway at centre to roadside, flanked by windows; boarded doors with two-pane fanlights. Harled pentice roofed extensions to centre and right bays at rear of three northmost cottages; remaining cottage with door to left and window to right. Blank end gables.

Pantile roofs; coped skews; Stone end stacks, brick stacks to mutual gables. Windows currently boarded up.

Statement of Interest

Listed for their unaltered form and as good examples of improvement cottages such as Loudon illustrated in COTTAGE, FARM AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. Pitcox cottages in the neighbouring Stenton parish provide a slightly earlier version of the same design. A sympathetic addition to the rear of the southernmost cottage (Number 3) was accepted March 1990.

Stoneypath Farmhouse and steading are listed separately. Cottages at 1 and 2 Stoneypath Farm not included in the lisitng.

Statutory address changed from 'Stoneypath Farm Cottages' to '3, 4, 5 and 6 Stoneypath Farm Cottages' and minor update to listed building record in 2023.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17794009

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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