Description

Early 19th century with later additions and alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house with single storey ancillary structure adjoined at front. Harl-pointed sandstone rubble; droved rubble dressings. Droved quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings; painted margins; projecting, painted cills.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door centred at ground; opaque fanlight; plain surround. Single windows at ground in flanking bays; single windows in all bays at 1st floor. Ancillary structure adjoined at ground to outer right.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window at ground off-set to left of centre.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: single window at ground in bay to outer left; small window at ground off-set to right. Single windows in all 3 bays at 1st floor.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Modern roofing materials. Stone-coped skews. Brick-built apex stacks to SW and NE; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: red brick. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. Boarded timber door at centre; single windows in flanking bays. 4-pane timber windows. Grey slate piended roof. INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS, GATEPIER AND GATES: coped and stepped tooled sandstone wall enclosing site to front; spearheaded iron railings above in part. Square-plan, coursed red sandstone gatepier to right of entrance; corniced, pyramidal cap. 2-leaf, spearheaded iron gates.

Statement of Interest

An early, largely intact house, set on a prominent corner site, at the junction between Ayton's High Street and Old Town. The house is unusual in having its back to the street on which it is set.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77775428

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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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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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)