Description

Mid 19th century. Single storey and attic, symmetrical cottage villa, rectangular-plan. Sandstone ashlar with moulded margins and dressings; harled side and rear elevations. Base course; slightly projecting eaves.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3 bays. Door at centre, wooden round-headed canopy on consoles, plate-glass fanlight, panelled door, modern vestibule door; segmental-headed, eyelet dormer above. Flanking canted bays at ground floor, decorative cast-iron parapet/window guard; gabled attic storey breaking eaves; round-headed windows, impost band, channelled voussoirs in pointed arch panel with keystone.

uPVC windows. Grey slate roof with lead flashings; squat corniced stacks with tall battered, corniced cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1993.

BOUNDARY WALL: whinstone wall with harl pointing, boulder coping.

Statement of Interest

Roscombe is one of a number of similar cottage villas along the Rosneath Road. A house named as Woodend Cottage, and on the same site, is shown on the 1st edition map.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77770129

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)