Temple Cottage, 14 Main Street, Temple

Late 18th century, raised in the later 19th century. Single storey and attic, 9 bay, rectangular plan traditional row of 3 cottages now forming 1 house, with 20th century additions and alterations. Coursed and squared and snecked tooled sandstone with droved dressings. Chamfered reveals and quoins; gabled dormers to attic storey.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; boarded timber door with glazed panel to centre of ground floor, flanked to right by tooled panel reading "Sir William G Gillies, Painter, 1898-1973, lived and worked in this house"; windows flanking bay to left and right; 2 gabled dormer windows to left and right bays attic storey, skylight to centre. 3 bay former cottage adjoining to right; window to centre in infilled former doorway, windows to flanking bays to left and right, skylights to centre and right of roof. 3 bay former cottage adjoining to outer right; boarded timber door off centre to left, flanked to left and right by broad 2 leaf boarded timber doors.

N ELEVATION: blank, infilled opening to left.

W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; ground floor of cottage to right obscured by flat roofed harled additions, harled lean to adjoining to outer right. Flat roofed sun porch advanced to right at centre cottage with 2 leaf glazed door, modern dormer with cat slide roof above; large modern plate glass window flanking porch to left; glazed strip of tiles to left of roof. Boarded timber door to centre of cottage to left, flanked to left and right by timber sash and case windows; flat roofed timber porch advanced to outer left; 2 skylights, modern dormer to left.

S ELEVATION: blank.

4 pane timber sash and case windows to E elevation, variety of modern glazing to W. Purple grey slate roof with lead ridge to cottage to S; red pantiled roof with slate easing course and terracotta ridge to centre cottage; modern concrete pantiles with concrete ridge to cottage to N; stone skews; tooled coped gablehead stacks with circular cans. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: largely altered.

ANCILLARY STRUCTURE: single storey, single bay, rectangular plan structure to SW of house; random rubble with rubble dressings; boarded timber stable door off centre to left of N elevation breaking eaves; piended pantiled roof with row of glazed tiles to E and terracotta ridges.

GARDEN WALLS AND STEPS: rubble wall with rubble coping adjoining house to N; terraced garden to W with irregularly placed rubble walls; curved stone steps to NW, stone and concrete steps to W.