Carrington, Main Street, 4 Carrington Mains Cottages Midlothian, Scotland, UK
Early 19th century. Single storey, 5-bay, rectangular-plan cottage with later additions and alterations. 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, 5-bay, rectangular-plan cottage with later additions and alterations. Tooled, snecked sandstone rubble with broached dressings. Projecting cills; long and short quoins. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 8-pane window to centre and penultimate bay to right; boarded timber door to penultimate bay to left; windows to bays to outer left and outer right. Single storey pink sandstone addition to right with piended pantiled roof; single window to left; coped pink sandstone wall extending to No 5 Main Street (see separate listing) to right. Harled addition to left with piended slate roof, blank. S, E and W ELEVATION: not seen 1998. Predominantly 16-pane and 8-pane timber sash and case windows. Red pantiled roof with slate easing course and terracotta ridge. Tooled, squared and snecked, coped sandstone gablehead stacks with circular cans. INTERIOR: not seen 1998. BOUNDARY WALL: random pink sandstone rubble wall extending between outer right bay and addition to right with rubble coping
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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B Group with Carrington Village, Nos. 1, 2, 3 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.