worker's house

Terraced two-bay single-storey estate worker's "cottage" with half-dormer attic, post-1841; extant 1902, with single-bay single-storey gabled projecting porch to left ground floor. Reroofed [CEMA]. Now in private residential use [CEMA]. One of a terrace of eight. Pitched roofs including pitched (gabled) roof to porch with replacement artificial slate, ridge tiles, red brick Running bond chimney stack having stepped capping supporting terracotta pot, rooflight to rear (????) pitch, slightly sproketed eaves, and cast-iron rainwater goods on slate flagged eaves retaining wrought iron brackets. Roughcast walls over semi-coursed random rubble stone construction with concealed rough hewn granite quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings in bipartite arrangement with cut-granite sills, concealed rough hewn granite lintels, timber mullions, and four-over-four (ground floor) or two-over-four (half-dormer attic) timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes. Set in own grounds with semi-coursed random rubble stone boundary wall to perimeter having cut-granite "saddleback" coping [OS].

SA: A small-scale house built as one of a terrace of eight identical or near-identical units (including 15702517, 19 - 22) representing an interesting component of the later nineteenth-century domestic architectural legacy of Courtnacuddy.