Silo View And Nursery Cottages, The Glen

The Glen estate buildings comprise a former gardeners' bothy and store, circa 1880, with a later house added in 1903. They are situated within the estate grounds.

The buildings are rectangular in plan, originally single-storey and eight-bay, with diagonally attached wing walls to the front angles that terminate in square ashlar piers, forming a frame yard. A later single-storey, four-bay estate cottage was attached to the road. The construction is primarily of coursed whinstone rubble, with sandstone ashlar dressings, long and short quoins, and coursed whinstone rubble walls topped with semi-circular copes. Droved ashlar piers have chamfered arrises and pyramidal caps.

The northwest elevation (Silo View) features a low wall with a central entrance and a path. The central bay rises into a gablehead with a pitched timber entrance canopy, incorporating plain barge boarding, a drop brace finial, and timber uprights resting on ashlar corbels. A boarded door is sheltered by the canopy, alongside a small envelope fanlight and a narrow window. A carved date stone (1903) sits centrally above the entrance. Bipartite windows are located on either side. The rear of the Nursery Cottage range adjoins the rear and projects to the flanks.

The southwest elevation shows a blind gable end of the Nursery Cottages, with a diagonally placed frame yard wall adjoining the angle and a door to the left return. A recessed two-bay section of Silo View sits to the left, featuring two regularly placed windows and a centrally located shouldered wallhead stack. The garden is diagonally enclosed by a medium-height whinstone rubble boundary wall, which adjoins the wall of the walled garden to the south.

The southeast elevation’s single-storey, eight-bay former gardeners’ bothy and store incorporates semi-glazed entrance doors in bays 4 and 7. Windows are irregularly placed in the remaining bays; bays 7 and 8 appear subsided. Diagonally placed wing walls, as previously described, create a frame yard with brick cold frames (lacking glazed lids).

The northeast elevation reveals a blind gabled end of the nursery cottage with a diagonally placed frame yard wall adjoining the angle. A recessed section of Silo View is located to the right.

Silo View’s windows are timber sash and case, with eight panes (six panes to the upper sash and two vertically placed panes to the lower sash); a similar window with six panes is to the right of the entrance door (four-panes to the upper sash and two-panes to the lower sash). Nursery Cottage also has timber sash and case windows with eight panes. The buildings are covered by a pitched grey slate roof (piended to Silo View) with lead ridging, flashing and valleys. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, with some later plastic replacements to Nursery Cottages, are present. Silo View has tall ashlar shouldered wallhead stacks with projecting shouldered neck copes and tall single cans. Nursery Cottages features a short ashlar roofline stack with paired plain cans and a metal roofline ventilator to the northeast.

The interiors are currently in use as a residential house and storage rooms.