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Sheaf House, Main Street, Allanton

A Category C Listed Building in Edrom, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7821 / 55°46'55"N

Longitude: -2.2159 / 2°12'57"W

OS Eastings: 386555

OS Northings: 654329

OS Grid: NT865543

Mapcode National: GBR D1ZL.13

Mapcode Global: WH9Y7.XXZR

Plus Code: 9C7VQQJM+RJ

Entry Name: Sheaf House, Main Street, Allanton

Listing Name: Allanton, Sheaf House

Listing Date: 26 March 1997

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391000

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44463

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391000

Location: Edrom

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: East Berwickshire

Parish: Edrom

Traditional County: Berwickshire

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Description

Mid 19th century, with later addition to rear. Single storey with attic, 3-bay rectangular-plan terraced house with a single storey addition. Stugged ashlar with finely droved ashlar dressings; painted rubble with droved dressings to rear. Base course; stop-chamfered arrises.

E (STREET) ELEVATION: panelled door to centre with 2-pane rectangular fanlight above, set in pedimented doorpiece. Slightly advanced painted window margins to each flanking bay with bipartite window to each; swept in below eaves and corbelled above with gabled dormers with wheat sheaf carving to finialled gableheads.

W ELEVATION: single storey addition to centre.

Modern glazing. Slate roof with fishscale slates in alternating bands. Ashlar coped skew to N with skewputt. 3-flue brick stack with coping to centre; coped brick mutual stack to N.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.

Statement of Interest

The building is part of a terrace. The ornamental slating is similar to the other houses in Allanton that were built by and for the Blackadder estate.

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