Description

Circa 1890. Single storey, 3-bay asymmetrical, cottage ornee with gabled bay to right overhanging eaves with decorative pierced barge boarding. Coursed sandstone to principal elevation, rubble to rear with ashlar quoins and window margins, ashlar base course.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: studded timber door to centre with decorative cast-iron strap hinges, plain dressed ashlar jambs and lintel and penticed slated hood; advanced gabled bay to right with 8-point star panel with initials JH to gablehead; canted window with half piended roof. Bipartite window to left with stugged architrave and gable breaking eaves.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 3 diminishing gabled bays, that to outer right as service porch; squared random rubble advanced gable end bay to left with rectangular.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: windows to centre and right with stugged architrave; canted window to right with ashlar stone margins.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: irregular fenestration.

8-pane timber sash and case windows remaining to side and rear, modern out of character windows to front. Concrete tiles, ashlar coped stacks, cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 2000.

BOUNDARY WALLS: ashlar dwarf wall with saddle-back coping; flower-finialled cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

Former lodge of the Coltness Estate. 'JH' carved on the tympanum panel stands for James Houldsworth whose family bought the estate in 1848. The Houldsworths were wealthy Yorkshire mill owners who moved to Lanarkshire to join the coal and iron manufacturing boom of the mid 19th century.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77775737

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6