7 Sinclair's Hill and Former Smithy is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1971. House.
7 Sinclair's Hill and Former Smithy
- WRENN ID
- odd-wall-sable
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 June 1971
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
7 Sinclair's Hill and the Former Smithy is a picturesque row of irregular paired, single-storey and attic estate cottages and a smithy, dating from the earlier to mid 19th century. Built in the Cotswold Tudor vernacular style, the structures are made of roughly squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and deeply chamfered arrises. The smithy is located to the outer left.
Number 7, situated at the center, features a gabled stone porch supported by Jacobean battered columns. To the right, there is a slightly advanced tripartite window, with a gabled stone dormer above it. To the left, a timber-mullioned tripartite window is complemented by a stone wallhead dormer above, which also has further tripartite windows.
Number 8, located to the outer right, has a gabled porch at its center, with a slightly advanced four-light window to the right and a tripartite window in a stone gabled dormer above. To the left, there is a tripartite window and a bipartite gabled stone dormer above it. An advanced gabled bay to the outer right features a tripartite window at ground level (with replacement mullions) and a carved ribbon bearing the name 'Sinclair's Hill' below a bipartite window in the gablehead above, as well as a bipartite window on the return to the left. There is a substantial modern addition to the rear.
The smithy has a gabled outer wing to the left, which mirrors that to the right. It includes a tripartite window at ground level and a bipartite window above, with a carved horse-shoe relief over the attic window. There is a door on the return to the left, flanked by tripartite windows, and a window on the return to the right.
The buildings feature plate glass glazing, primarily in timber sash and case windows (some of which have been replaced), and diamond-pane glazing in the sash and case windows of the smithy. The roofs are covered with graded grey slates, including 19th-century rooflights and modern Velux windows. The structures have sawtooth coping to the skews and bracketed skewputts, with stone ridges and stacks featuring battered coping.
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