Temple Cottage, 14 Main Street, Temple

Temple Cottage is a house of late 18th century origin, raised in the later 19th century. Originally a row of three cottages, it has been combined into a single dwelling with 20th-century additions and alterations. The building is rectangular in plan and has a single storey and attic, extending over nine bays. It is constructed of coursed and squared sandstone, with snecked tooling, and features droved dressings, chamfered reveals, and quoins. Gabled dormers are visible within the attic storey.

The east elevation, which is the principal façade, displays symmetry. A boarded timber door with a glazed panel is centrally positioned on the ground floor, flanked to the right by a tooled panel commemorating “Sir William G Gillies, Painter, 1898-1973, lived and worked in this house.” Windows are situated on either side of the doorway. Two gabled dormer windows are positioned in the left and right bays of the attic storey, with a skylight centrally located above. A three-bay former cottage adjoins the east elevation to the right, featuring a window centrally placed where a former doorway was infilled and windows to the flanking bays. Further to the right is another three-bay former cottage, with a boarded timber door positioned off-centre to the left, flanked by broad, two-leaf boarded timber doors on either side.

The north elevation is blank, with an infilled opening to the left. The western elevation is asymmetrical, with the ground floor of the cottage to the right obscured by flat-roofed harled additions and a lean-to addition to the outer right. A flat-roofed sun porch is advanced to the centre of the cottage, featuring a two-leaf glazed door. A modern dormer with a cat-slide roof sits above the porch, alongside a large modern plate glass window to the left. A glazed strip of tiles runs along the left side of the roof. A boarded timber door is centrally located on the cottage to the left, flanked by timber sash and case windows to the left and right. A flat-roofed timber porch projects from the outer left, with two skylights and a modern dormer also present.

The south elevation is blank. The cottage to the south has a purple grey slate roof with a lead ridge. The central cottage has a red pantiled roof, with a slate easing course and terracotta ridge. The cottage to the north features modern concrete pantiles with a concrete ridge. Other features include stone skews, tooled coped gablehead stacks with circular cans, and cast iron rainwater goods.

The interior has undergone significant alterations.

A single-storey, single-bay, rectangular-plan ancillary structure is located to the southwest of the main house. Constructed of random rubble with rubble dressings, it has a boarded timber stable door off-centre on the north elevation, breaking the eaves. It features a piended pantiled roof with a row of glazed tiles to the east and terracotta ridges.

Garden walls and steps constructed from rubble with rubble coping adjoin the house to the north. A terraced garden to the west features irregularly placed rubble walls. Curved stone steps lead northwest, while stone and concrete steps lead west.