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6 Hope Cottages, Muirhouses, Bo'Ness

A Category C Listed Building in Bo'Ness, Falkirk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.0069 / 56°0'24"N

Longitude: -3.575 / 3°34'29"W

OS Eastings: 301890

OS Northings: 680451

OS Grid: NT018804

Mapcode National: GBR 1T.TDV4

Mapcode Global: WH5R3.18XV

Plus Code: 9C8R2C4G+Q2

Entry Name: 6 Hope Cottages, Muirhouses, Bo'Ness

Listing Name: Muirhouses, 5 and 6 Hope Cottages Including Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 November 1980

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 357930

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22375

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200357930

Location: Bo'Ness

County: Falkirk

Town: Bo'Ness

Electoral Ward: Bo'ness and Blackness

Traditional County: West Lothian

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Description

Dated 1874. 2 single storey and attic attached cottages forming L-plan cottage orné. Predominantly squared and snecked tooled sandstone. Overhanging eaves. Droved chamfered openings.

E (PRINCIPAL ELEVATION): gabled porch in low recessed wing to right with 1874 datestone. 4 bays to left, later flat-roofed dormer above.

S ELEVATION: half-hipped 2-bay end gable to right with blind attic lancet window (No 6); 2 bays recessed to left with further low recessed wing to far left with entrance door (No 5).

No leaded lattice glazing extant. Timber boarded door to No 6. Graded grey slates. Gable end stacks to N and W, ridge stack at junction between Nos 5 and 6. N elevation No 5, later flat-roofed dormer, large flat-roofed stone extension to right.

INTERIOR: nos 5 and 6 modernised. Possible original location of staircase to attic extant in No 6.

BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble wall to E 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.

The original division between cottages 5 and 6 was altered in the 1970s, with No 6 now one and a half cottages in size and No 5 smaller as a result (although the modern extension to the rear has compensated for this). The position of the staircase in No 6 leading to the attic floor closely matches that described as being the original access to the attic (but not surviving in the other remaining cottages). Located just inside the front door on the left (but sometimes from the scullery), these narrow staircases were once hidden by a cupboard door. While No 6 has lost its cupboard door, it is narrow and twists sharply to the right, providing access to what would have been the entire attic floor.

Fragmentary evidence of pig sty in garden of No 6.

Part of a B-group with Old Schoolhouse, The Old School House, The Library House, 1-4 and 7 & 8 Hope Cottages, 18-20 Carriden Brae and Carriden Cottage.

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