Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes, Galashiels is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 March 1971. Housing complex. 1 related planning application.
Lucy Sanderson Cottage Homes, Galashiels
- WRENN ID
- riven-cellar-solstice
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 March 1971
- Type
- Housing complex
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Mears and Carus-Wilson, 1930-33. Housing complex consisting of a central hall and apartments with 8 pairs of semi-detached cottages arranged around a village green. Whin and sandstone rubble with buff sandstone ashlar dressings. Prominent steep-pitched green Westmoreland slate roofs.
HALL: rectangular-plan gabled hall with prominent octagonal ogee-roofed rubble clock tower. Bolection-moulded doorpiece with carved panel above. Full-height windows with gabled dormer-heads. Vaulted ceiling to interior. Murals of the process of woollen textile manufacture from sheep to finished cloth. Former matron's accommodation to E.
IDA HAYWARD COTTAGES: adjoining hall to west. Former sick bay in the form of 2-storey house with upper breaking eaves, gabletted dormers. Single-storey 5-bay wing extending further west.
LUCY SANDERSON COTTAGES: 8 pairs of semi-detached cottages on varying plans, but all broadly rectangular-plan. Simple layout dominated by steep piended roofs and distinctive capped stacks.
Multi-pane timber sash and case windows throughout. Distinctive stone stacks.
Detailed Attributes
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