Description

Later 19th century with later alterations. Single storey with attic, 6-bay rectangular-plan cottage, formerly 2 cottages. Stugged squared and snecked sandstone with droved dressings; roughly squared and snecked sandstone to rear and side elevations. Slightly raised long and short quoins; corniced margins to openings; chamfered arrises.

S ELEVATION: 2 steps to panelled door in bay to inner left with glazed upper panels. Window to each bay, bipartite in bay to inner right.

N ELEVATION: irregular 4-bay, altered. Modern partly glazed door in bay to inner right. Glazed double door in bay to inner left. Window to each flanking bay.

12-pane timber sash and case windows. Ornamental slating to S with bands of fish-scale slates. Ashlar curvilinear dormerheads to intermediate bays to S with ball finials and segmental-arched window to each with round-arched panel to gablehead. Ashlar coped skews with kneelers and skewputts. 2-flue brick, coped apex stack to W and E; brick, 2-flue stack to centre.

INTERIOR: not seen, 1996.

Statement of Interest

The cottages were probably farmer workers' cottages for Blackadder Mains which lies to NW. This and the steading were part of the Blackadder estate, which is indicated by the ornamental slating, seen also, for example, in Allanton. There is some indication that the original cottages were symmetrical with a door to each intermediate bay of S elevation and bipartite window to inner left, where the door is now, 1996.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77772532

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6