Hutton, Smiddy Cottage Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
Listed Building Description
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Probably early 19th century with later additions and alterations. Symmetrical 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house with single storey, 3-bay smithy range adjoined to left. House: painted harl; painted margins; projecting cills. Smithy: tooled sandstone rubble; tooled quoins; droved long and short surrounds to openings W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: house to right comprising modern timber panelled door centred at ground; letterbox fanlight. Single windows flanking entrance at ground; squat single windows aligned above. Former smithy adjoined to left with boarded timber door to right; single openings to left. Lean-to addition to outer left. E (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 1999. 6- and 12-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof to house; stone-coped skews. Corniced, brick-built apex stacks; circular cans. Steeper pitched pantile roof with grey slate easing course to smithy; brick-built apex stack. INTERIOR: not seen 1999. BOUNDARY WALLS: rubble walls partially enclosing site.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
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A prominently sited range, particularly notable for its pantiled smithy. According to the current occupant, little of the smithy's original equipment remains in place (1999). Rutherfurd's notes a Mr James Allan as blacksmith in Hutton in 1866.
Listed Building References
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Thomson's map, 1821 (not clear). Ordnance Survey map, 1857 (marked as 'smithy'). RUTHERFURD'S SOUTHERN COUNTIES' REGISTER AND DIRECTORY (1866, reprinted 1990) p650. THE PARISH OF HUTTON, PAXTON AND FISHWICK (1989) p6.