Description

Circa 1910. Single storey cottage over boat-port, creating symmetrical boat house with Swiss Cottage and Tudor influence. Harled walls with applied decorative half-timbering and timber detailing. Bracketted timber band course at principal floor.

SW (ENTRANCE) GABLE: symmetrical, 3 bays, lower boat-port on falling ground to rear; principal floor comprising door at centre framed by strip pilasters with bracketted timber canopy above; 8-pane timber fixed-lights in flanking bays, half-timbering to elevation and gablehead.

SE ELEVATION: blank lower stage; shouldered single flue stack corbelled out at centre and rising through chimneygable breaking eaves; 4-pane timber casement windows flanking, half-timbered elevation to left of centre, open timber-balustraded balcony to right.

NE GABLE: boat-port doors to lower storey, timber balustraded arcaded balcony to principal floor with half-timbered gable oversailing.

NW ELEVATION: door off-set to right of centre at laigh storey; 8-light mullioned and transomed timber oriel window centred at principal floor; casements and multi-pane glazing to lower and upper lights respectively, slender bracketted timber columns below, half-timbered gable breaking eaves above; half-timbered elevation to right of centre, open timber-balustraded balcony to left of centre.

Red tile roof with cast-iron rainwater goods; swept, overhanging timber eaves with exposed rafter ends, wide splayed timber barge boards to gables with truncated finials at apexes; harled and corniced stack piercing roof at S gable.

Statement of Interest

A Group with Dundas Castle, including Blue Acre, Brown Acre, Castleloch, Castle Grove, Dovecot, Dundas Castle Keep, Dundas Loch Bridge, Dundas Mains, Fountain Sundial, Ice House, Lilac Cottage, North Lodge, Rose Cottage, South Lodge and Walled Garden (see separate listings).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17810608

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living