Rose Cottage, St Fillans

Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Rose Cottage is a simply, traditional single storey cottage dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, the best example of the few surviving in the village of St Fillans. The cottage faces S, situated to the rear of a long garden plot, enjoying views over Loch Earn. A building representative of the original vernacular style of the village, before tourism and the railways brought development and change.

Rose Cottage is simple rectangular plan cottage, formerly single storey with attic accommodation, the cottage is situated at the rear of a long garden plot. The S facing main (entrance) elevation takes maximum advantage of sunlight and views. To the centre is a pitch-roofed timber porch sheltering a two-leaf timber door, with flanking window openings. The remaining elevations are very plain, no openings to the rear (formerly only with a single skylight to the roof), and a single opening to the E. To the W a single storey byre has been removed, the doorway to this blocked and cement rendered. Work was being carried out at the time of the resurvey (2005) and the cottage was roofless.

Gatepiers: rubble boundary walls. Circular plan, stout, coursed rubble piers. Corniced, with domed capstones.

Materials: random sandstone and whinstone rubble; large squared rubble quoins; slab lintels to openings. Coped, squared rubble, gablehead stacks to E and W; thackstanes; 2 conical cans to each stack. Formerly with grey graded slates (Work in progress, 2005).