Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

10 THE GREEN, BOTHWELL HOUSELB45726

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Group Category Details
100000020 - see notes
Date Added
25/09/1998
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Parish
Swinton
NGR
NT 83479 47355
Coordinates
383479, 647355

Description

Later 18th century with earlier to mid 19th century and later alterations. 2-storey, 3 bay house (2-bay at 1st floor) forming part of terrace fronting green. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone; droved sandstone dressings. Stugged long and short surrounds to openings; projecting cills (painted); bracketed timber bargeboards to gableheads.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door centred at ground; engraved fanlight. Single window at ground in bay to outer left; gabled window breaking eaves above. Boarded timber garage doors (former cart opening) at ground in bay to outer right; heavy timber lintel; gabled window breaking eaves above.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: single storey, rectangular-plan outbuilding set to front.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows to front; small skylight. Grey slate roof; raised skew to NE. Part brick apex stack to NE; various circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Special Interest

B Group comprises Nos 9-30 The Green (inclusive Nos excluding 12, 16, 25 and 29), the former Free Church, Main Street (now a village hall) and Nos 29-33, 35, 39, 41, 43, 47, 36, 46 and 48 Main Street - see separate list entries. A well-detailed house forming part of a terrace fronting a large village green. The cart opening, one of only a few remaining, is a remnant from the days when the village was full of travellers. Developed in the later 18th century, the rectangular plan green is lined with cottages on 3 sides and is enclosed by Main Street to the N. Swinton Cross - a classical column dated 1769, still stands in the centre (see separate entry). Individually, the houses lining The Green have retained some good, if varied detailing and thereby, a degree of architectural significance. As a group, they remain an interesting, and relatively rare example of an early planned village, comparable with the likes of Yetholm. In 1866, approximately a century after the replacement of "...a few miserable huts" with "...one spacious square, with a green in the middle" (STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, 1793), Rutherfurd referred to Swinton as a "...pleasant and important village."

References

Bibliography

STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1793) pp332-333. Blackadder map, 1797 (green evident). Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (evident). RUTHERFURD'S SOUTHERN COUNTIES' REGISTER & DIRECTORY (1866, reprinted 1990) p608. F H Groome ORDNANCE GAZETTEER OF SCOTLAND (1885) p424. C A Strang BORDERS AND BERWICK: AN ILLUSTRATED ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE (1991) p61. E Layhe THE HISTORY OF BERWICKSHIRE?S TOWNS AND VILLAGES (1995) p86. Swinton Post Office photographic archive.

About Listed Buildings

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