Description

Dated 1864. 2 single storey and attic attached cottages forming L-plan, cottage orné. Predominantly squared and snecked tooled sandstone. Overhanging eaves. Droved chamfered openings.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: (No 20)Gabled porch in low wing to left with 1864 datestone. 4 bays to right.

N ELEVATION: 4 bay, gabled low wing to right attached to end gable, both rubble. Low 3-bay rubble wing to left, with 2 doors.

CARRIDEN COTTAGE S ELEVATION: half-hipped 2-bay end gable to left (No 20); 2-bays recessed to right with further low recessed rubble wing attached to right with entrance door.

Modern windows and replacement door to W elevation. Modern windows and door to S elevation. Some original leaded lattice glazing to N elevation. Graded grey slates. Partial stack to N, stack to E, with ridge stack between No 20 and Carriden Cottage.

INTERIOR: (No 20) partly altered, with possible original washhouse now converted to form modern bathroom. Evidence of original 4 small rooms/box beds plan to front of cottage still discernible. (Carriden Cottage) modernised, with further renovations (2003).

ANCILLARY STRUCTURES & BOUNDARY WALLS: Coping stones from previous boundary wall to W, attached to short section of rubble wall with plain square gate pier. PIG STY: (In garden of No 20) rubble-built enclosure with semi-circular coping.

Statement of Interest

Nos 1-8 Hope Cottages, 18-20 Carriden Brae, Carriden Cottage, The Library House and Old Schoolhouse and The Old School House were all built as a model village for the Carriden Estate workers by Admiral Sir James Hope of Carriden (1808-81). The picturesque cottages are well designed and carefully executed and are resolutely English cottage orné in style with their lattice windows and hipped roofs. They were designed with large gardens and at one time had stone pig stys in the garden. Each cottage had its own well with a handpump in the scullery. The cottages all had a blind lattice window ('to keep the devil away' as local folklore had it), of which No 19 is the only one to retain this feature. The floor plan of No 19 may be taken as close to what the other cottages were originally like. No 19's scullery originally housed a boiler for laundry and a mangle. Some of the cottages had a floored attic.

Admiral and Lady Hope were committed teetotallers and it is likely that they provided the Library House and large gardens to occupy their workers and distract them from public houses.

Part of a B-group with Old Schoolhouse, The Old School House, The Library House, 1-8 Hope Cottages, 18 & 19 Carriden Brae.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626973

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings