Robert Owen's House, 3 Rosedale Street, New Lanark

Circa 1790. 2-storey, basement and attic, 3-bay, rectangular plan, symmetrical, gabled house with steps to central entrance and gently canted dormers. Random rubble with ashlar sandstone dressings. Eaves cornice. Tabbed quoins strips. Regular fenestration with raised margins. 2-leaf timber-panelled entrance door with rectangular fanlight. Regularly-fenestrated rear elevation to street with central staircase window.

Predominantly 12-pane glazing in timber and sash case windows. Ashlar-coped gablehead stacks with yellow clay cans. Ashlar-coped skews. Grey slate roof. Basement area surrounded by plain railings.

INTERIOR: simple but good internal detailing, mostly 19th century. Timber chimneypieces with cast-iron grates to principal rooms; panelled doors and timber shutters throughout. Kitchen fireplace with stone surround and cast-iron range. Flagged floors to hall, staircase kitchen and washhouse.