Ayton, Old Town, Hillside Ayton, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Ayton, Old Town, Hillside has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 330189 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 10
- Canmore ID
- 94636
- Category
- C
- Name
- Ayton, Old Town, Hillside Including Boundary Wall
- Parish
- Ayton
- County
- Scottish Borders
- Easting
- 392534
- Northing
- 661138
- Date Listed
- 28 September 1999
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Earlier to mid 19th century with later additions and alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey with attic, 3-bay classically-detailed house, set on slope, forming end of terrace. Painted harl to front; harl-pointed sandstone rubble to side. SE (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door centred at ground; bat-wing fanlight; round-arched, keystoned door-surround; single window centred at 1st floor beneath tympany gable at wallhead; surmounting stack. Single windows at both floors in flanking bays; sunk catslide dormers aligned above. NE (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window at 1st floor off-set to right of centre. NW (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 1998. 4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to front; some modern, plate glass windows; modern dormers. Grey slate roof; stone-coped skews. Brick-built apex stacks; various circular cans. Coped sandstone stack surmounting pediment; single can. INTERIOR: not seen 1998. BOUNDARY WALL: heavily-pointed coped rubble wall partially enclosing site to front.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
A well-detailed house, set prominently at the top of a hill which runs NE from Ayton's High Street.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Ordnance Survey map, 1860 (evident).
