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West Cottage, Langalchorad Cottages, Kingarth

A Category C Listed Building in Kingarth, Argyll and Bute

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7629 / 55°45'46"N

Longitude: -5.0372 / 5°2'13"W

OS Eastings: 209542

OS Northings: 656349

OS Grid: NS095563

Mapcode National: GBR FFYH.1FD

Mapcode Global: WH1M0.LDJY

Plus Code: 9C7PQX77+54

Entry Name: West Cottage, Langalchorad Cottages, Kingarth

Listing Name: Kingarth, Langalchorad Cottages Including Outbuilding

Listing Date: 20 February 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 391786

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45012

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200391786

Location: Kingarth

County: Argyll and Bute

Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute

Parish: Kingarth

Traditional County: Buteshire

Tagged with: Cottage

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Description

Dated 1873. Pair of single storey with attic, 2-bay cottages forming symmetrical 4-bay block. Red brick with painted polychrome detailing. Painted quoins; long and short surrounds to slight segmental-arched openings; raised eaves course; timber bargeboards; projecting cills. Single storey, rectangular-plan red brick outbuilding at rear.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled, dated entrance porches in bays to outer left and right; boarded timber doors set within; 4-pane fanlights. Bipartite windows at ground in 2 central bays; ball-finialed gables to bipartite dormers aligned above.

8-pane timber sash and case glazing. Graded grey slate roof; polychrome apex stacks to E and W; square can to E; circular cans to W.

INTERIORS: not seen 1996.

OUTBUILDING: boarded timber openings in 3 bays to left of centre; single windows in remaining bays to right. 6-pane casement glazing. Graded grey slate roof.

Statement of Interest

A picturesque pair of cottages with some unusual polychrome detailing. The bricks used in the construction of both this and the nearby Brick Cottage and Roselea (see separate list entry), came from the Kingarth tile works, now demolished. The house associated with the tile works remains and is listed separately (see The Tileries, Kingarth). Despite their picturesque appeal, the bricks were found to be too porous for extensive use, leaving this, Brick Cottage and Roselea as the few examples of their type in the area.

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