Garden Cottage, Thirlestane Castle Estate

Probably William Burn, circa 1841. Single, 2-storey and attic, 4-bay, roughly L-plan, multi-gabled, multi-pitched gardener's cottage with broad bracketed overhanging eaves located near NW corner of Thirlestane Castle Walled Garden. Squared and snecked greywacke rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course. Chamfered margins; polished greywacke in-and-out quoins. N (principal) ELEVATION: pitched roof porch to NE re-entrant angle with basket-arched entrances to N and E; carved Maitland Family Arms (lion crest) above arch to centre; timber door to W side. Bi-partite timber window to left; tri-partite timber window to right; advanced gable to far right with canted window at ground; tri-partite above. Further canted window at ground floor E elevation and advanced bay window at ground floor W elevation. Advanced single-storey gabled outshot to S elevation with door to S; pair of windows with diamond glazing to right side. Wall with pedestrian gate and rounded red sandstone coping extends to S.

Variety of glazing patterns to predomiantly timber sash and case windows. Grey slate. Tall, ridge and co-axial stacks with raking shoulders, coping and clay cans.