Bank Cottage, Torcastle, Caledonian Canal

Bank Cottage is a single-storey and attic cottage, built around 1815 by Thomas Telford as part of the Caledonian Canal project. It faces southwest with a three-bay design, distinguished by a central, projecting bowed bay. The walls are harled (roughcast) with painted tooled ashlar margins. A later timber gabled porch obscures the central entrance. Two small, piended (hipped) dormers are set into the roof, along with a window in the northwest return gable. The windows have four panes of glass. The base course is visible, and a central coped ridge stack rises from the roof. The roof is covered in slate. A large, modern extension has been added to the rear. It was formerly known as Canal Cottage, as shown on Ordnance Survey maps. The statutory address is Bank Cottage by Torcastle, Caledonian Canal.