Smithy, Luggate Burn

William Burn, circa 1830. Single storey picturesquely

gabled cottage (formed from original pair) and workshop.

Cottage is stugged, squared red and pink sandstone with

stugged ashlar dressings; roughly coursed rubble rear

and workshop, suggesting possible incorporation of earlier

building.

W ELEVATION: gabled porch set off-centre to right with

doorway to S and narrow window with bracketted stone

canopy to W. Gablehead with overhanging eaves to

segmentally arched, timber mullioned bipartite to right of

centre, and similarly to outer left bay. Gabled, harled

porch addition projecting from bay left of centre.

N AND S GABLES: segmentally arched timber mullioned

window to S gable wall, with corbelled stack at apex;

N gable blank with unusual mannered corbelling to stack.

Small harled piend-roofed addition to NE angle.

WORKSHOP: adjoined to rear (E) elevation of cottage, with

wide doorway to S and taller, pentice-roofed bay to outer

right with segmentally arched doorway. Plate glass sash

and case windows. Original grey slates. Single diamond

stacks. Crowstepped gables with beak skewputts.

RETAINING WALL: rubble wall with semi-circular coping and

square pier with semi-circular coping.