Description

Sir Robert Lorimer, 1901. Single-storey and attic, 4-bay terrace of 4 cottages. English vernacular with advanced jerkin-headed gables to end bays; swept roof to centre over recessed doorways and canted window to ground; 2 boat-shaped dormers to attic. Painted render with sandstone cills to end gables. Basecourse, upper floor of end gable slightly corbelled out. Timber boarded doors with glazed upper sections to chamfered outer corners of end gables. Tripartite casements to gables. Identical doors to recessed inner bays; roof swept over, forming porch. Large canted window to centre. Bipartite casements to dormers above. 4 dormers to rear with piended-roofs, except that to No 5.

Predominantly 6-pane glazing to timber casements. Ashlar coped rendered stacks with tall red clay cans. Graded grey slate .

BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble boundary wall to N; some decorative wrought-iron gates. Ashlar-coped rendered boundary wall to W.

Statement of Interest

Together with numbers 1-2 and 3 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 Q17806770

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)