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Rosebery Cottage, 17 March Street, Peebles

A Category B Listed Building in Peebles, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.6548 / 55°39'17"N

Longitude: -3.1931 / 3°11'35"W

OS Eastings: 325024

OS Northings: 640784

OS Grid: NT250407

Mapcode National: GBR 6341.HR

Mapcode Global: WH6V4.X4N9

Plus Code: 9C7RMR34+WQ

Entry Name: Rosebery Cottage, 17 March Street, Peebles

Listing Name: 17 March Street, Rosebery Cottage, with Front Wall

Listing Date: 29 March 1995

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384844

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39231

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Peebles, 17 March Street, Rosebery Cottage

ID on this website: 200384844

Location: Peebles

County: Scottish Borders

Town: Peebles

Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West

Traditional County: Peeblesshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Dated 1880. Symmetrical, tall single storey and attic imaginatively detailed 3-bay house with large modern addtion to rear. Dressed whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings; vermiculated quoins, rubble sides, dry-dash extension.

N (FRONT) ELEVATION: base course; long and short panelled buckle quoins; margins with buckle tabs; panelled lintels; stop-chamfered arrises. Panelled and glazed door at centre with letterbox fanlight; lintel inscribed ROSEBERY COTTAGE and ciphered plaque above. Flanked by bipartite windows with bracketed cills and decorated lintels; similar lintel course unites with door. Date divided in panel above each window 18-80. Pair of piend-roofed canted timber dormers with finials; modern velux rooflight at centre.

E AND W ELEVATIONS: blank gable with blind trefoil in gablehead.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: obscured by large modern extension.

Timber sash and case plate glass windows. Roof to front composed of alternating bands of coursed grey slates and greener slates in fishscale and diamond patterns (interrupted by rooflight). Ashlar coped skews with scroll-bracketed skewputts. Stugged sandstone stacks with ashlar coping; tapering square panelled and coped cans (1 replaced).

INTERIOR: not seen 1994.

FRONT WALL: low rubble whinstone wall.

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