Smithy Cottage, Crask Of Aigas

Later 19th century. Single storey and attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan cottage. Slightly later rear outshot creating L-plan. Former Aigas estate smithy cottage. Porch supported by rustic timber columns; distinctive decorative bargeboarding to all gables including dormerheads (excepting rear elevation). Rendered walls.

SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical elevation. Central door; advanced porch with rustic timber (tree trunk) supports. Boarded gablehead to porch; king post with angle braces accentuated in black. Porch currently enclosed with glazing and timber boarding (2002). Single windows flank porch. 2 pitched dormer windows, wholly in roof, centred above ground floor windows. Cast-iron finials to porch and dormer windows.

SW ELEVATION: plain elevation with bargeboarding.

NW ELEVATION: long and narrow central window; window to left. Small outshot to far left; door and window in right return.

NE ELEVATION: plain elevation with bargeboarding to cottage gable. Plain outshot wall to right.

Late 20th century doors. 4-pane timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof, graded slate. Coped stone near-gable apex stacks; circular clay cans. Rear central roof light. Scroll detail to bargeboards with central heart drop pendant.

INTERIOR: plain, off-centre timber staircase. Coombed ceilings to attic floor.