Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey with attic, 4-bay, rectangular plan, cottage orne style with advanced, low-pitched, gabled entrance bay to right with decorative timber and glazed entrance porch flanked by rectangular windows and blanked twin-arched window with hoodmould to apex. Timber barge-boarded gablets to roof with scalloped timber detailing to porch and window gablets. Margined stone surrounds and pitched hoodmoulds to entrance bay windows with metal framed diamond pane glazing. Whinstone rubble with sandstone quoins and window margins, painted render to gabled offshots at rear. Small later 20th century, rendered, slate-roofed building to rear garden.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Bifold panelled timber entrance door with pointed glazing and dentilled detail over. Overhanging timber-bracketed eaves, grey slate roof. Shafted and single diamond ridge stacks, and large rendered ridge stack with plain clay cans.

Statement of Interest

Brookside is one of the finer and possibly earlier examples of houses in this planned estate village with some well designed details on the advanced entrance bay surviving in good unaltered condition. It holds a prominent position to the centre of the village and makes a good contribution to the streetscape.

The history of the building's function is unknown although it is possible that the bay to the NW is an addition dating to the later 19th century. It is believed that the building used to house a well within it in the 19th century. Part of the building may have been a shop.

In 1838 Alexander Cochrane MP (b1816), grandson of the Earl of Dundonald, inherited the Baillie family estate of Lamington at which time he took on its name to become Alexander Baillie Cochrane. He became Lord Lamington in 1883. Baillie-Cochrane inherited a modest estate and set about rebuilding it from 1844 following his marriage to Anabella Drummond, and began by making large additions to the existing shooting lodge in Elizabethan style to form the, now demolished, Lamington House. At the time Lamington village was a series of bothies stretched along the roadside to the south of the House. He set about building a new village in a programme of improvements to the NE of the house with the earliest building dating to the 1840s and the latest to the 1870s. These buildings survive today and maintain the character of a planned estate village as they were designed.

The architect of the village is not known however it is thought William Spence (1806?-1883) may have been involved in the building of some of the village estate buildings. He built Coulter Mains house in the adjacent Coulter Parish. Spence worked as an assistant to both David Bryce and William Burn and, the first house with which he was associated, Coulter Mains, bears elements of the Burn and Bryce school. There are elements of design in the estate houses of the village which also have these characteristics.

The Lamington Papers held in the Mitchell Archive include a letter from Architect David Bryce in 1838 stating that he encloses his revised, scaled down plans for the shooting lodge at Lamington. It is not known whether he carried out the commission for the shooting lodge which became Lamington House or whether the job was completed by someone else. The architects Wardrop and Brown are known to have carried out a music room addition in 1858.

The owners confirm there is a functioning well in the kitchen. This was not been seen at time of resurvey

Formerly listed as 'Lamington Village, Various Cottages and Former Post Office' at category B. Revised as a separate listing following resurvey (2010).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17853603

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)