Survey Data
Reg No
15702517
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Worker's house
Date
1841 - 1902
Coordinates
288929, 137141
Date Recorded
02/10/2007
Date Updated
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Description
End-of-terrace two-bay single-storey estate worker's "cottage" with half-dormer attic, post-1841; extant 1902, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to right ground floor. Now disused. One of a terrace of eight. Pitched slate roofs including pitched (gabled) slate roof to porch with clay ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, rooflight to rear (????) pitch, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining wrought iron brackets. Roughcast walls over semi-coursed random rubble stone construction with concealed rough hewn granite quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, concealed rough hewn granite lintels, timber mullions, and four-over-four timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds with semi-coursed random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having cut-granite "saddleback" coping [OS].
Appraisal
SA: A small-scale house built as one of a terrace of eight identical or near-identical units (including 15702518 - 22) representing an interesting component of the later nineteenth-century domestic architectural legacy of the environs of Courtnacuddy.