house

Attached four-bay two-storey house, built 1858. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and cut limestone chimneystacks, and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Dressed snecked limestone walls with cut-stone quoins and plinth, rendered to north-east gable. Square-headed window openings with cut-stone block-and-start surrounds and cut-stone sills, with six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening with cut-stone block-and-start surround with glazed timber door. Single-storey outbuilding to rear with pitched slate roof, rendered walls and square-headed openings. Square-profile cut-stone pier to yard entrance, rubble stone boundary walls with cast-iron gate piers with decorative finials and wrought-iron gate. Rendered boundary walls to front of site, with cast-iron pedestrian gate.

A notable landmark in the area, this small group with a distinctly urban form at a rural road junction was one of many interventions by Allan Pollok, who purchased large estates in the region in the 1850’s with a view to large scale land improvements and commercial farming. As well as numerous farmsteads and workers' houses, Pollok also had mills, a forge, and tradesmen's properties constructed, to aid the development of his estate. The well-cut local limestone shows the skill of nineteenth-century stonemasons, and the retention of timber sash windows adds depth, texture and a patina of age to the elevation.