Upperton Cottage is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Cottage.
Upperton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- white-panel-violet
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Cairngorms National Park
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Probably early 19th century, partially rebuilt circa 1900. Single storey, 3-bay traditional cottage with lower piend-roofed, 2-bay ancillary adjoining at W, and timber porch from earlier cottage; fine sole survivor of early clachan. Roughly coursed rubble with squared rubble quoins.
Further Description
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay with small pitch-roofed timber porch incorporating small horizontal bipartite window on return to left; later bipartite windows (altered from single windows) in flanking bays. 3 small cast-iron rooflights. Slightly recessed bays of ancillary at outer left incorporating 2 horizontally divided stable-type boarded timber doors and 2 traditional rooflights.
4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Corrugated iron roof. Coped ashlar stacks with thackstanes and some cans and ashlar-coped skews with block skewputts.
INTERIOR: some early interior detail retained including boarded timber walls, centre staircase and fireplace with working swey to byre end.
Detailed Attributes
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