Description

Sir Robert Lorimer, 1900. Single-storey and attic, 3-bay, T-plan cottage. English vernacular with pair of large boat-shaped dormers breaking eaves at attic to N; bell-cast piended roof with central stack. Painted render; sandstone rubble to dado of door reveals; sandstone cills to ground; red tile cills to dormers. Basecourse. Timber boarded door with glazed upper section to centre within deep arch with splayed reveals forming porch. Flanking tripartite casements; bipartite dormers above. Lean-to scullery outshot to rear (S); piended roof dormers to attic.

6-pane glazing to timber casements. Coped stack with tall clay cans. Graded grey slate; black ridge tiles.

BOUNDARY WALL: rubble boundary wall.

Statement of Interest

Together with numbers 1-2 and 4-7 Rustic Cottages, forms a picturesque group along Colinton Road, the main road into Colinton from Edinburgh. Built for J J Galletly, who owned Inchdrewer house (299 Colinton Rd). These cottages were perhaps influenced by Kirkton Cottages, Fortingall, Perthshire by James Maclaren. Lorimer also designed similar cottages for Linlithgow Bridge in 1899, and the boat-shaped dormer is found in a number of his other buildings.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806727

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)