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Latitude: 56.6983 / 56°41'53"N
Longitude: -3.7332 / 3°43'59"W
OS Eastings: 293962
OS Northings: 757626
OS Grid: NN939576
Mapcode National: GBR KC40.JNP
Mapcode Global: WH5MJ.MWHX
Plus Code: 9C8RM7X8+8P
Entry Name: Ferryman's Cottage, Port-Na-Craig Road, Pitlochry
Listing Name: Port-Na-Craig Road, Ferryman's Cottage, Including Boundary Walls
Listing Date: 9 June 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394892
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB47535
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Pitlochry, Port-na-craig Road, Ferryman's Cottage
ID on this website: 200394892
Location: Pitlochry
County: Perth and Kinross
Town: Pitlochry
Electoral Ward: Highland
Traditional County: Perthshire
Tagged with: Cottage
Early 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay house with single storey wing forming courtyard to rear. Roughly coursed squared rubble with some areas of snecking.
NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Small gabled timber porch with window to centre bay at ground, windows in flanking bays and regular fenestration close to eaves at 1st floor.
NE (RIVER) ELEVATION: gabled bay to right with 2 windows to each floor, single storey wing to left with glazed door to left, window beyond and 2 further windows to right.
SW (PORT-NA-CRAIG ROAD) ELEVATION: piend-roofed elevation with 2 windows to each floor and dominant wallhead stack to centre.
SE ELEVATION: largely blank single storey elevation with blocked arrowslit type openings (air vents?) to outer SE face.
COURTYARD ELEVATIONS: asymmetrical elevations with variety of elements including lean-to bays to NW and SE.
4-, 8- and 2-pane glazing pattern over plate glass lower sashes in timber sash and case windows. Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar stacks with some cans.
BOUNDARY WALLS: semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.
Group with Portnacraig Inn and Nos 1-4 Port-Na-Craig Road as a designed group. Port-Na-Craig is the site of a ferry crossing established during the 12th century by monks of the Abbey of Coupar Angus, and remembered in the local name of 'Fonab' meaning 'abbot's land'.
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