Whareburn Cottage

Earlier 19th century; single storey raised to include attic late 19th, early 20th century; single storey porch addition late 20th century. Single storey with attic, 3-bay, rectangular-plan picturesque cottage with single storey, lean-to addition at rear. Harl-pointed whinstone rubble; stugged and polished sandstone dressings. Overhanging timber bracketed eaves; timber bargeboards to gabled dormers with timber brackets, kingpost trusses. Stugged quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to stop-chamfered openings. Stop-chamfered sandstone mullions to bipartite and tripartite windows; projecting cills. Harled addition at rear. Single storey garage block to E.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: decorative iron hinges to boarded timber door centred at ground. Tripartite window at ground in bay to outer right; small bipartite light centred in gabled dormer above. 4 light canted window at ground in bay to outer left; bipartite window centred in gable corbelled out above (breaking eaves).

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind bays to original house. Lean-to addition recessed to outer right with part-glazed boarded timber door in bay to left; bipartite window in bay to right.

2-pane lower sashes, 9- and 6-pane upper sashes in timber sash and case windows; single skylight to front. Graded grey slate roof; decorative terracotta ridging; cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced apex stacks rebuilt in brick; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

GARDEN WALLS: dry rubble walls enclosing site.