White Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 February 1971. Tollhouse, residential.
White Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-roof-nightshade
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1971
- Type
- Tollhouse, residential
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
White Cottage is a late 18th century building with 19th century additions. It is a single-storey former tollhouse situated on a raised basement, featuring a rectangular plan and originally designed with three bays. The building has been extended to form an L-shaped residence with a gabled entrance porch. The exterior is finished with harled and limewashed stone, complemented by painted sandstone window dressings.
On the southwest elevation, access is provided by steps leading down to a central projecting gabled porch that includes an arch-headed window. To the left of the porch is a timber segmental-arched entrance door, while the right side is blind. The outer bays feature simple windows with painted stone lintels, margins, and sills.
The northwest elevation has three regularly placed bays that face the roadside. The northeast elevation includes a window on the ground left, with a projecting bay (likely part of the original design) to the right, which opens to the basement. There is also a window on the left return.
The southeast elevation is mostly blind, except for a window located off-centre to the left of the basement, and features a central wallhead stack. The principal windows on the southwest elevation have 12 lying-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames, while the gable of the porch has a 2-pane timber sash and case arched window. The remaining elevations are fitted with 12-pane timber sash and case windows. The roof is covered with piended grey slate, featuring lead and aluminium ridging and flashings. The later porch has a pitched roof with exposed rafters, purlins, and plain bargeboards. The building has painted cast-iron rainwater goods and tall, harled and painted stacks on the east and west sides, both topped with heavy plain neck copes and paired hexagonal cans, one of which has been replaced on the west stack.
The interior has been in private residential use since 2001.
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