Silo View And Nursery Cottages, The Glen

Glen Estate masons and joiners, circa 1880 with house added 1903. Single storey, 8-bay, rectangular-plan vernacular former gardeners' bothy and store with diagonally attached wing walls to front angles terminating in square ashlar pier (forming frame yard); to road, later attached single storey, 4-bay, rectangular-plan gable entranced estate cottage. Coursed whinstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and long and short quoins; coursed whinstone rubble walls with semi-circular copes and droved ashlar piers with chamfered arrises and pyramidal cap.

NW (SILO VIEW) ELEVATION: low wall with central entrance, path leading Silo View: wide central bay rising into gablehead with pitched timber entrance canopy (with plain barge boarding, drop brace finial, supported on timber uprights resting on ashlar corbels) shielding boarded door with small envelope fanlight to left and narrow window to right, centrally placed carved date stone (1903) surmounting; to flanks, bipartite windows with ashlar mullions. Rear of Nursery Cottage range adjoined to rear and projecting to flanks.

SW ELEVATION: to right, blind gable end of Nursery Cottages with diagonally placed frame yard wall adjoining angle at right and door to left return. Adjoining and recessed to left, 2-bay end of Silo View with 2 regularly placed windows and to centre, shouldered wallhead stack. Garden diagonally enclosed by medium height whinstone rubble boundary wall (which adjoins that of walled garden to S).

SE (NURSERY COTTAGES) ELEVATION: single storey, 8-bay former gardeners? bothy and store with semi-glazed entrance doors to bays 4 and 7, windows to rest of irregularly placed bays (bays 7 and 8 appear subsided but have been like this since built); diagonally placed wing walls (described in SW and NE ELEVTIONS) form SE facing frame yard with brick cold frames (glazed lids now missing).

NE ELEVATION: to left, blind gabled end of nursery cottage with diagonally placed frame yard wall adjoining angle at left. Much recessed to right, end of Silo View (see SW ELEVATION).

To Silo View, 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows (with 6-panes to upper sash and 2 vertically placed panes to lower sash), similar 6-pane window to right of entrance door (4-panes to upper sash and 2-panes to lower sash). To Nursery Cottage, 8-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Pitched grey slate roof (piended to Silo View) with lead ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods (some later plastic replacements to Nursery Cottages). Tall ashlar shouldered wallhead stacks to Silo View with projecting shouldered neck copes and tall single cans; short ashlar roofline stack to Nursery Cottages with paired plain cans, metal roofline ventilator to NE.

INTERIOR: in use as a residential house and store rooms.