Beesknowe House

Robert Rowand Anderson, 1886. Single storey and attic

cottage, English vernacular style. Squared and snecked

red sandstone with ashlar dressings to ground floor,

mock timber-framing to attic floor.

N ELEVATION: asymmetrical 3-bay. Advanced gabled bay to left

with stone mullioned row of 5 narrow lights at ground;

jettied attic floor with 5-light canted oriel swept up from

decorative arcaded timber-framing, apex jettied again. Porch

Flanking single storey wings slightly advanced, with

at centre set in re-entrant angle, with cat-slide roof;

tripartite windows in segmentally arched panels.

entered from W through depressed arch doorway, paired

W ELEVATION: 2-storey, 2-bay addition to centre and

segmental windows to N; panelled 2-leaf door. 4-light window

flanking bay to right, with doorway on N return;

to outer right bay, detailed as left bay, and gabled 4-light

dormer window.

S ELEVATION: outer right bay gabled (S end of cross

wing) with narrow 5-light window, intercepted by stack

flanking centre bay; low stone mullioned bipartite to

ground at centre and tripartite swept dormer window above.

Canted 5-light window to outer left bay, added after 1926,

with piend roof. Glazed lean-to conservatory inserted between

outer right bay at ground, and small stone boiler house,

formerly detached.

E ELEVATION: window to left and slightly advanced stack to

right with saw-tooth set-off near ground.

W ELEVATION: blank with slightly advanced stack at

centre, breaking through apex of eaves.

Small-pane casement windows; timber mullions to attic

windows, and tile hanging to sides of dormer windows.

Rosemary tiles. Ashlar coping to stacks. Studded details to

mock timber-framing. Barge boarded overhanging eaves.

Decorative gutter fixtures.