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Latitude: 55.7821 / 55°46'55"N
Longitude: -2.2155 / 2°12'55"W
OS Eastings: 386580
OS Northings: 654333
OS Grid: NT865543
Mapcode National: GBR D1ZL.43
Mapcode Global: WH9Y7.YX5Q
Plus Code: 9C7VQQJM+VQ
Entry Name: Carter's House, Main Street, Allanton
Listing Name: Allanton, Former Carter's House
Listing Date: 26 March 1997
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390994
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44458
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200390994
Location: Edrom
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: East Berwickshire
Parish: Edrom
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: House
Later 19th century with later additions and alterations. Single storey with attic, picturesque, 3-bay terraced cottage. Stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings; harl-pointed rubble to rear with modern lean- to harled addition with glazed porch to centre and left of rear. Chamfered arrises; slightly raised margins with long and short raised tails.
W (STREET) ELEVATION: modern panelled door to centre with letterbox plate glass fanlight. Stone-mullioned bipartite window in bay to right. Segmental-arched pend-opening in bay to left with heavily- channelled ashlar to arch.
E ELEVATION: modern lean-to addition to centre and in bay to left, with glazed porch to centre (see above). Droved ashlar segmental-arched pend-opening to outer right.
Modern glazing. Ornamental slating with purple slates alternated with green fishscale slate bands. Curvilinear gabled ashlar dormers with ashlar finials, segmental-arched windows and round-headed panel to dormerhead, in each flanking bay. 19th century flush skylight to centre. Ashlar coped skews. Brick mutual stacks.
INTERIOR: much altered, 1996.
PEND: setts to ground. Rubble walls flanking.
There was formerly a row of outbuildings to E where the carts for the Blackadder estate were housed. The ornamental slating to the roof indicates the connection with the estate and it may be assumed that employees of the estate were housed in the cottage.
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