Dirtness Cottage

Dirtness Cottage is a former gate lodge built in the mid-19th century for John Brunyee of Sand Hall. The cottage is constructed of brown brick with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. It has a polygonal shape with a canted south end. The entrance on the southeast side includes a later 19th-century open porch supported by slender fluted cast-iron columns, which hold up a flat sandstone hood. Beneath this is a 20th-century door set within a timber lintel. Each of the four sides has three-light windows with pointed lights, small panes, and central hinged casements, all set in painted chamfered ashlar reveals. The building has deep eaves, crested ridge tiles, and a hipped roof with a central octagonal stack. Dirtness Cottage was formerly the south gate lodge to Sand Hall and is complemented by a garden outhouse at the Hall and a northern lodge at Godnow Bridge. The porch may have been added when the nearby Dirtness Pumping Station was constructed in 1867.