2 Marchmont Cottages, Marchmont House

Circa 1860 with later additions and alterations. Pair of single storey with attic, 3-bay cottages forming symmetrical 6-bay block; single storey, piended additions at rear. Squared and snecked stugged red sandstone to front; harl-pointed rubble to sides and rear; sandstone ashlar dressings. Droved quoins; droved long and short surrounds to chamfered openings; timber mullions to bipartites; projecting cills. Overhanging bracketed timber eaves to gabled dormers. Harled additions at rear.

SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: each cottage comprises boarded timber door centred at ground (plate glass fanlight to left; 2-pane fanlight to right); decorative sandstone brackets to pentice porch. Bipartite windows flanking at ground; gabled wallhead dormers aligned above.

NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind elevation to gabled bay; later addition recessed to right.

NW (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey piended projections off-set to left and right of centre with single windows and boarded openings.

SW (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind elevation to gabled bay; later addition recessed to left.

Lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to front; plate glass and 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows at rear. Grey/purple slate roof; stone skews; bracketed skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Corniced brick-built ridge and apex stacks; various circular cans.

INTERIORS: not seen 1998.