8 Preston Farm Cottages, Preston is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 August 1999. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.
8 Preston Farm Cottages, Preston
- WRENN ID
- frozen-chimney-rowan
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1999
- Type
- Cottages
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Possibly late 18th to early 19th century with later additions and alterations. Pair of single storey with attic, 3-bay cottages forming symmetrical 6-bay block; lean-to addition at rear. Harled rubble (exposed in part); cream sandstone dressings; dry-dashed rear addition. Chamfered margins; projecting, painted cills; rendered margins to gabled dormers; timber-mullioned bipartites.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: each cottage comprising boarded timber door at centre; single window at ground in bay to outer right (No 8) and left (No 9); bipartite window in bay to left and right respectively; gabled, bipartite dormers breaking eaves above.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: regularly fenestrated, near full-width, lean-to addition; single windows in bays recessed to outer right and left respectively.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind.
Diamond-paned casement glazing to front; plate glass timber sash and case windows to rear; small rooflights. Grey slate roof; stone ridging; bracketed skewputts; cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced, brick-built ridge and apex stacks; various circular cans.
INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Detailed Attributes
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