Description

Dated 1856. Single storey, 5-bay, cottage in estate style with 3 prominent gables with timber bargeboards, cross-bracing and distinctive lying pane glazing pattern. Pentice canopies with console brackets to windows. Coursed whinstone rubble with droved sandstone quoins and window margins. Later 20th century flat and pitched roof extension to side, later porch to rear.

Heavy timber-framed, timber-mullioned, lying-pane glazing pattern with horizontal top lights. Overhanging timber bracketed eaves, graded grey slates. Plastic rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low wall to street: brick piers infilled with semi-circular clay tiles and capped with angled terracotta ridges.

Statement of Interest

Laundry Cottage is an important element of the planned estate village, with some fine stone detailing, prominent gables, and good windows which makes a strong contribution to the streetscape and village grouping.

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 old 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. At this time the main road was redirected to the NW between the two gate lodges to afford privacy to Lamington House and Estate. These village 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 house, 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.

Laundry cottage was built as the Lamington Estate laundry and when built was an L-plan with a laundry room, kitchen, washing room. By the 2nd edition map the two bays to the left of the main elevation had been added to provide domestic accommodation and large timber-framed, open drying room to the rear forming a T-plan. As with much of the village the building was renovated in the 1970s at which point the drying room was demolished, the internal layout altered and a large flat roofed garage and kitchen extension added adjoining the S gable. (Since altered to have partially pitched roof.) The carved 'ABC' stone to the central gable is the initials of Anabella Baillie Cochrane.

The characteristic boundary walls are similar to others in the village that have now been lost.

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 Q17853607

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