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Glencairn, 15 The Green, Swinton

A Category C Listed Building in Swinton, Scottish Borders

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.7195 / 55°43'10"N

Longitude: -2.264 / 2°15'50"W

OS Eastings: 383515

OS Northings: 647371

OS Grid: NT835473

Mapcode National: GBR D2M9.NK

Mapcode Global: WH9YM.6H5Q

Plus Code: 9C7VPP9P+QC

Entry Name: Glencairn, 15 The Green, Swinton

Listing Name: 15 the Green, Glencairn

Listing Date: 25 September 1998

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 392701

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45729

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200392701

Location: Swinton

County: Scottish Borders

Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire

Parish: Swinton

Traditional County: Berwickshire

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Description

Later 18th century with later to late 19th century additions and alterations. 2 storey, 4 bay house forming part of terrace fronting green. Coursed render; lightly droved pink sandstone dressings. Raised base course; upper windows breaking eaves; timber bargeboards to gableheads (king posts and tie-beams). Sandstone margins; projecting cills.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door at ground off-set to right of centre; 2-pane fanlight; corniced door surround. Single windows at ground in flanking bays; gabled windows breaking eaves above. Part-glazed boarded timber door at ground in bay to outer left (infilled cart opening); 2-pane fanlight.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: various additions at ground; single window at 1st floor off-set to left of centre; gabled windows breaking eaves in bays to outer left and right. Single storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding to front.

16-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to front. Grey slate roof; raised skews; part brick apex stack to NE; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Interest

B Group comprises Nos 9-30 The Green (inclusive Nos excluding 12, 16, 25 and 29), the former Free Church, Main Street (now a village hall) and Nos 29-33, 35, 39, 41, 43, 47, 36, 46 and 48 Main Street - see separate list entries. A well-detailed house forming part of a terrace fronting a large village green. A cart opening, similar to that at No 14 (see separate entry) would originally have filled the bay to outer left - this being a village once full of travellers. Developed in the later 18th century, the rectangular plan green is lined with cottages on 3 sides and is enclosed by Main Street to the N. Swinton Cross - a classical column dated 1769, still stands in the centre (see separate entry). Individually, the houses lining The Green have retained some good, if varied detailing and thereby, a degree of architectural significance. As a group, they remain an interesting, and relatively rare example of an early planned village, comparable with the likes of Yetholm. In 1866, approximately a century after the replacement of "...a few miserable huts" with "...one spacious square, with a green in the middle" (STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, 1793), Rutherfurd referred to Swinton as a "...pleasant and important village."

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