Description

1886. 2-storey 3-bay house. Whinstone with cream sandstone dressings; heavily stugged long and short quoins and tabbed margins. Stop-chamfered arrises.

W ELEVATION: panelled door at centre with plate glass letterbox fanlight; lintel carved with RATHO COTTAGE and guilloche moulding; panelled datestone 1886 above with terracotta heads in corners and rope moulding; flanked by windows at ground with decorative carved lintels. Windows hard under eaves to all bays at 1st floor.

Blank gable ends, later door at ground to N.

Timber 4-pane sash and case windows (plate glass lower sashes at 1st floor). Grey slates; ashlar coped skews with gablet skewputts; corniced whinstone apex stacks with sandstone dressings; some octagonal cans.

BOUNDARY WALL: low rubble wall to front with saddleback ashlar coping and later railings.

Statement of Interest

The carved detailing is of particular quality.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56645116

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)