Description

Mid 19th century. 2-storey, 3-bay, gabled, rectangular-plan, former schoolhouse with advanced, gabled central bay and lower shallow roofed single-storey section to rear. Small entrance porch to right re-entrant angle with main roof extending over and diamond-pane glazing to side. Pentice canopies with decorative brackets to principal windows, tripartite stone mullions to upper windows. Timber-bracketed overhanging eaves with cross bracing detail to gable apexes. Whitewashed whinstone rubble and sandstone quoins.

4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows, 4-panelled timber entrance door. Graduated grey slates. Tall corniced ashlar eaves and ridge stacks with plain clay cans.

Statement of Interest

The Schoolhouse is a good example of an estate building within the planned village, with some good stone detailing such as prominent stone stacks and pentice canopies with decorative brackets. The left bay, whilst in the same style, appears to be a later addition appearing on the third edition map of 1908. The school and schoolhouse replaced an earlier school which lay adjacent to Lamington West Lodge.

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.

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

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q77781937

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version