Carrington, Main Street, 2 Carrington Mains Cottages Midlothian, Scotland, UK
Early 19th century. Single storey, 6-bay, rectangular-plan cottage with wing to rear. Tooled, snecked sandstone rubble with broached dressings. Projecting cills; long and short quoins.
Listed Building Description
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Early 19th century. Single storey, 6-bay, rectangular-plan cottage with wing to rear. Tooled, snecked sandstone rubble with broached dressings. Projecting cills; long and short quoins. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 2 8-pane windows to central 2 bays; boarded timber door to penultimate bay to left; bipartite window to penultimate bay to right, flanked to left by infilled doorway; bipartite window to outer left; boarded timber door to outer right. W ELEVATION: obscured by adjoining building. S ELEVATION: not seen 1998. E ELEVATION: asymmetrical; window off-centre to left of gabled bay. Single storey, 2-bay wing to outer left; window to centre, flanked to left by small 2-pane window. Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Red pantiled roof with slate easing course and terracotta ridge. Stone skews. Coped sandstone gablehead stack; harled, coped modern ridge stack with circular can. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: not seen 1998.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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B Group with Carrington Village, Nos. 1, 3, 4 Carrington Mains Cottages, Carrington Mains Steading and Carrington Mains Farmhouse (see separate listings). Carrington Village was built to serve Carrington Mains (see separate listing) which is part of Rosebery Estate.
Listed Building References
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1st (1852) AND 2nd (1892) EDITION OS MAPS; THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND, (1792), Vol 14, p613; J Thomas, MIDLOTHIAN: AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE, (RIAS), (1995), p99; NMRS Photographs.