Description

Circa 1870. Pair of symmetrical single storey terraced cottages, cottage orné. Predominantly squared and snecked tooled sandstone. Overhanging eaves. Droved chamfered openings.

S (PRINCIPAL ELEVATION): 4-bay with low recessed wings to left and right.

No original leaded lattice glazing in place, all modern glazing. Timber boarded entrance doors. Graded grey slates Ridge stack marking division between cottages.

INTERIOR: Nos 1 and 2 modernised.

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.

In Nos 1 and - Hope Cottages the low recessed wings contained the coal cellar and lavatory. Pig sty of No 1 no longer extant.

Part of a B-group with Old Schoolhouse and The Old School House, The Library House, 3-8 Hope Cottages, 18-20 Carriden Brae and Carriden Cottage.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626976

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Recommended Books

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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)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  For the Record
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2