Description

The two adjoining properties at 2 and 4 Newburgh Road, Auchtermuchty are late 18^th century, single storey, three-bay cottages, each with two windows and centre door. They are rubble-built with 12-pane timber sash and case windows and red pantiled roofs (formerly thatched) with ashlar skews. No. 2 has a scrolled skewputt to the south gable. No. 4 has a small attic window to the north gable. Both cottages have rubble end chimney stacks and there is one central stack. The interior was not seen (2021).

Statement of Interest

2 and 4 Newburgh Road largely retain their historic character as late 18^th cottages of traditional build and appearance. They are prominently located on one of the main roads leading into Auchtermuchty from the north. Auchtermuchty expanded during the 18^th century when it became a centre for linen manufacture, and again during the mid 19^th century. The setting is little altered since the 19^th century in terms of street pattern and distribution of 18th–19th century buildings. While single-storey cottages of this period survive in large numbers throughout Scotland, those that are little-altered, and which retain their historic setting may be considered for listing. While No. 2 Newburgh Road no longer has a thatched roof (replaced after 1972), the properties continue to be of special architectural and historic interest as representative examples of their late 18^th century date.

Statutory address and listed building record revised 2021. Previously listed as 'Houses ('Bonskeid' and A T Carswell's, Mrs Urquhart, Tenant) Newburgh Road'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626024

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)