The Laws Cottage, Laws House is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 October 1997. Cottage.

The Laws Cottage, Laws House

WRENN ID
eternal-rood-plum
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 October 1997
Type
Cottage
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Laws Cottage, also known as Laws House, is a later 19th-century, asymmetrical, single-storey cottage with an attic, designed in an L-plan with gabled roofs. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone, featuring polished, stugged, and droved sandstone dressings. It has a raised base course, overhanging timber bracketed eaves, and timber bargeboards. The building showcases tooled quoins, tooled long and short surrounds to openings, stop-chamfered reveals, sandstone mullions, and projecting cills, with the ground floor windows supported by corbelled brackets beneath architraved cills.

On the south elevation, a gabled bay is advanced to the outer right, featuring a projecting 5-light window at ground level and a bipartite window above. To the left, there is a catslide verandah supported by stop-chamfered timber columns that divide the arcaded bays, with decorative iron hinges on a boarded timber door set back within. A bipartite window is located at ground level in the bay to the outer left.

The west elevation has a gabled bay advanced to the outer left, with a 5-light window at ground level and a bipartite window above. To the right, there is a decorative 4-light glazing row set back, with a shouldered-arched alcove featuring a bracketed cill located behind the verandah in the bay recessed to the outer right.

On the north elevation, there is a single window off-set to the left of centre at ground level, and a narrow single window in a bay off-set to the right. A lean-to porch is situated in the bay to the outer left.

The east elevation features bipartite windows on both floors in the gabled bay to the outer right, with a single window in the subsequent bay to the left.

The cottage has plate glass timber sash and case windows, a graded grey slate roof with plain terracotta ridging, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Sandstone ridge and wallhead stacks are corniced, with various circular cans present.

The interior was not seen in 1997.

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