Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

CAIRNCROSS FARMHOUSE INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATE AND RAILINGSLB46595

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
26/01/2000
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Parish
Coldingham
NGR
NT 89160 63578
Coordinates
389160, 663578

Description

Late 18th century in origin with later additions and alterations. Symmetrical 3-storey, 3-bay farmhouse with gabled porch to front; full-width, lean-to addition at rear; long, single storey, rectangular-plan range adjoined to SE. Predominantly harled; squared and snecked tooled render to side (NW); red sandstone margins.

SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: principal block with projecting, pedimented porch centred at ground; part-glazed timber panelled door; plate glass fanlight; single window aligned at 1st floor; squat window at 2nd floor. Single windows at ground and 1st floors in bays flanking centre; gabled dormerheads to single windows breaking eaves above. Single storey range adjoined to right with single window off-set to left in block to left; single window off-set to left in block to right.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: gable end with single windows at all floors off-set to right. Single windows in steeply-pitched, lean-to addition to left.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: principal block with single window at 1st floor off-set to left of centre; single window in lean-to addition to right. Single storey, gabled range projecting at ground with various additions at rear.

Modern windows throughout. Grey slate roofs; stone-coped skews. Brick-built apex stacks to principal block with 3 linked, corniced flues; tall, stepped, brick-built ridge stack to single storey range; cans missing.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATE AND RAILINGS: low, coped and harled wall fronting principal block with arched gatepiers flanking pedestrian entrance; spearheaded iron gate; spearheaded railings to side (missing in part). Low, rubble-coped wall to front single storey range. Tall, rubble-coped walls enclosing garden at rear.

Statement of Special Interest

Noted in the OS Name Book as "...a commodious farm house 2 stories [sic] high, with suitable offices including a thrashing machine propelled by steam..." An unusual, prominently sited farmhouse, particularly notable for its height. Other interesting features include the steeply-pitched roofs and the linked, brick-built flues. Rutherfurd's notes a Mr Robert White as farmer here in 1866. Little of the original steading remains in place 1999. Non-traditional glazing marrs its otherwise meritorious impact.

References

Bibliography

Armstrong's map, 1771 (not evident). Blackadder's map, 1797 (evident). Ordnance Survey Name Book (1856-1858) Reel 61, Book 10, NMRS. Ordnance Survey map, 1858 (evident). RUTHERFURD'S SOUTHERN COUNTIES' REGISTER AND DIRECTORY (1866, reprinted 1990) p682.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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