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Latitude: 56.0187 / 56°1'7"N
Longitude: -4.7801 / 4°46'48"W
OS Eastings: 226813
OS Northings: 684126
OS Grid: NS268841
Mapcode National: GBR 0C.SS42
Mapcode Global: WH2LX.JZZD
Plus Code: 9C8Q2699+FX
Entry Name: Gare Cottage, Cumberland Road, Rhu
Listing Name: Rhu Village, Cumberland Road, Gare Cottage, Gate, Gatepiers and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 18 March 1994
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 353862
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB19501
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200353862
Location: Rhu
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Lomond North
Parish: Rhu
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Later 19th century. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan cottage. Rubble with polished sandstone dressings and margins. Projecting eaves, exposed rafters.
E ELEVATION: door at centre, 4-panelled with plate glass fanlight, small gabled dormer directly above. Flanking bays to right and left, biparitite at ground and bipartite, gabled dormerheads above.
S ELEVATION: gable with window at gablehead; lower, half-piend roofed projection off-centre to left, door to left, window on right return.
W ELEVATION: 3 bay, door at centre, flanking windows; gabled dormerheads, roof-light at centre.
2-pane sash and case windows; replacement uPVC windows at ground of main elevation. Grey slate roof; sandstone corniced apex stacks, octagonal cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1993.
GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: ashlar piers with moulded domed caps. Low rubble wall with semicircular coping. Simple iron gate with decorative finials.
Gare Cottage is shown on the 2nd edition map of Rhu. It is a good example of the particular cottage/villa housing in the village (along with its neighbour, The Anchorage) and holds a prominent site on Cumberland Road. The single storey, 2-bay block comprising The Nest is not listed.
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