Garden Cottage, Traquair House

Circa 1749 for Charles Stuart, 5th Earl of Traquair (11th Laird) with mid to later 19th century improvements; cottage extended into store later 20th century. 1?-storey, 3-bay vernacular estate cottage with gabled timber dormers; adjoining single storey, multi-bayed vernacular range containing (former) store, cart arch and workshop/store. Coursed whinstone rubble with whinstone dressings to earlier openings and sandstone sills to later/altered openings.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to left, 1 ?-storey cottage with central boarded timber entrance door and narrow letterbox fanlight surmounting, rectangular windows to flanks; to attic storey, pair of gabled timber dormers with slated cheeks and pitched roofs aligned with outer bays, 2-pane cast-iron Carron light to centre (lighting stairs). Adjoining cottage to left, large single storey range comprising former store abutting cottage with window and timber boarded door (now part of cottage), segmental-headed cart arch with pair of timber boarded doors and to right, large opening (originally with timber sliding door) latterly in-filled with timber boarding, gate and glazing of various style. Gabled ends and fairly plain rear elevation.

4 and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Pitched slate roof with lead ridging and extended slating in lieu of skews. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods. Pair of short squat whinstone stacks (sited at gableheads of cottage) with thin ashlar neck cope and only one can surviving (originally paired cans to each stack)

INTERIOR: cottage still in use as residential accommodation (for brewer) with timber doors and skirting boards; interior of cart shed and store still remaining as was with plain stone walls.