Endrick Cottage, Printers Row, Balfron

Endrick Cottage is a late 18th century cottage located on Printers Row in Balfron. It is notable as the birthplace of architect Alexander Thomson, who lived from 1817 to 1875. The cottage is a single storey with an attic and has flanking single storey piended outshots, which are now used as a garage, and a porch. The building features a 3-bay arrangement with a central door and porch facing the road, flanked by windows and a central skylight. On the garden side, there are three windows, with a modern flat-roofed attic extension above. The gable walls have attic windows and gable stacks. The cottage has modern timber sash and case windows, with plastic windows in the attic extension. The walls are rendered and painted white, and the roofs are covered with slate. The wide gables and steep pitch of the roof suggest that it may have originally had a thatched covering.