The Old Tollbar Cottage, Dinwoodie

The Old Tollbar Cottage in Dinwoodie is a single-storey, three-bay rectangular-plan former toll bar cottage, built between 1822 and 1823 by mason John MacDonald, following designs by civil engineer and architect Thomas Telford as part of the road improvements from Carlisle to Glasgow. The cottage is made of squared and tooled sandstone ashlar, painted white, featuring raised quoins and window margins.

The east elevation, which faces the road, includes a bowed bay on the right side with an iron lamp bracket above a timber door, flanked by two windows. The north elevation has three windows set in round-arched surrounds, with the central window being the largest. The cottage has a shallow piended roof with broad eaves and exposed rafter ends, along with a central chimney stack that has a gothic quatrefoil opening and four clay cans. To the south elevation, there is a slightly lower outshot, also with a piended roof.

Most windows feature a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case frames. The roofs are slated, and the rainwater goods are made of cast iron. The interior was not inspected in 2016, but photographs from that year show timber panelling in the front porch recess and a timber-lined segmental arch above one internal doorway.