Description

Early to earlier 19th century. Single storey 3-bay farm cottage.

Rubble red sandstone with stugged grey ashlar dressings. Low flat-roofed ashlar porch projecting at centre of W elevation with 2-leaf doors and with fanlight of original door evident under eaves of house behind; window in each flanking bay. 3 regularly spaced windows to E (rear) elevation. Low stone porch projecting form N elevation at

left, with small pointed arch window and 6-pane window on piend roofed

W return and doorway under ashlar coped skew to E. 12-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows. Grey slates to piend roof. Coped end stacks.

Statement of Interest

Renton Hall Farmhouse is listed separately below.The farm was evidently active from the mid 18th century (Armstrong,map of Haddingtonshire,1773),and in the 19th century included a tile works.The cottage presumably served as the grieve's house.A rubble coped rubble wall separates the cottage from the steading proper.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56623781

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)