Paul Jones' Cottage, Arbigland House

This is an earlier to mid-18th century single-story cottage, altered significantly and now forming a roughly T-shaped layout. The exterior is painted rubble with contrasting margins and cills. A tall gabled south wing, likely dating to the mid-19th century, features a single, south-facing window on either side. A kitchen addition is situated at the north end, with a door in the re-entrant angle and a swept roof. A bronze plaque is affixed to an otherwise blank wall. The building has end stacks and a roof covered in graded grey slates.

Adjacent to the cottage are kennels, constructed around 1860 and subsequently altered in 2003. The original kennel building is roughly square in plan, with a lean-to section and two adjoining walled enclosures. These enclosures are enclosed by high, spiked wrought-iron fences and gates towards the rear. The kennels have a piended roof with a gable at the rear and are irregularly fenestrated with casement windows and timber boarded doors. A large extension was added to the southwest in 2003. The original kennel building is lime-washed, while the rest is constructed of random rubble with sandstone ashlar margins. A coped gablehead stack is present, topped with two later red clay cans. The roof covering consists of graded grey slates with grey ridge tiles. A decorative cast-iron pump is located at the rear of the kennels, accompanied by a rectangular sandstone trough below.

This site is the birthplace and childhood home of Admiral John Paul Jones (1747-1792), known as the "Father of the American Navy." A plaque was erected in 1953 by the Naval History Association and the Army and Navy Chapter of the American Revolution, both based in Washington D.C., USA. The cottage was repaired in the early 19th century by Lt Pinkham of the American Navy, as documented in the New Statistical Account and on a dedicated website. The south wing of the cottage was not depicted on the first edition Ordnance Survey map. The cottage appears on the 1854 Ordnance Survey map, while the kennels are shown on the 1861 Ordnance Survey map.