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Latitude: 55.9652 / 55°57'54"N
Longitude: -3.416 / 3°24'57"W
OS Eastings: 311704
OS Northings: 675598
OS Grid: NT117755
Mapcode National: GBR 20.X0JD
Mapcode Global: WH6SH.HBJ9
Plus Code: 9C7RXH8M+3H
Entry Name: 2 Humbie Cottages, Humbie
Listing Name: Humbie Cottages
Listing Date: 8 March 1994
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364572
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27409
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364572
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Almond
Traditional County: West Lothian
Tagged with: Cottage
1843, altered 1903. Single storey long shallow E-plan range of 4 near-symmetrical cottages mirrored about centre with advanced gable, terminal bays. Squared and snecked honey-coloured sandstone. Stugged lintels, raised cills, quoins. Timber mullions.
S ELEVATION: advanced gables with bipartite windows (each half-blinded) under common lintel and cill. Small rectangular window in W return of centre gable. Left (W) cottage 5-bay L plan with gable; boarded door by re-entrant angle with 2 bipartite windows to right, and small window to left. 4-bay centre cottage; boarded door with small window to left, bipartite window to right and outer left. Cottages to E have smaller windows in mirrored form. 1843 date-stone over blind window at E gable.
E & W ELEVATIONS: blank.
N ELEVATION: modern additions and returns.
16-pane sash and case bipartite windows in gables, 8-pane sash and case for main elevations of cottages. Grey slate roof, coped ridge stacks. Ball finial on E gable; finials broken off from centre and W gables.
By the first edition Humbie farmhouse and steading are well established and Humbie cottages in existence. Humbie cottages were built in 1843 as 3 separate cottages, but were combined to form a single E-plan range in 1903. Humbie farmhouse, steading and dovecot are listed separately. The cottages are located fronting S along rear road to Humbie Farm.
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