A carefully finished street cottage is paired with a much smaller dwelling behind it, showing how additional accommodation was fitted into a narrow garden plot.
Quick facts
- Date
- Mid-19th century; later dormers
- Architect / designer
- Unknown
- Type
- Dormered street cottage with small parallel rear cottage
- Designation
- Listed building, Category C (LB15881)
- OS grid reference
- NJ 96062 67572
Architecture, archaeology and continuing use
The front house uses squared dark rubble, pinned joints and pale dressings. Canted wallhead dormers rise in the outer bays, while the rear cottage runs parallel as a two-bay rubble building with a gable doorway and its own stacks.
Its story
The principal cottage was built in the middle nineteenth century and gained dormers later. The rear dwelling added another independent domestic unit within the same plot, a compact response to limited settlement ground.
Why it is included
Category C listing recognises both the decorative street frontage and the survival of a secondary cottage largely hidden behind it.
What to notice
- Painted joints articulating the dark rubble front.
- Paired canted dormers at the wallhead.
- The parallel alignment of front and rear cottages.
Reading the surroundings
Both buildings and the garden are private. Remain on the public street and do not enter side passages or attempt to view the rear cottage without permission.
Timeline
- Mid-19th century A well-finished cottage anchored the street plot.
- Later 19th century Canted dormers increased light and attic accommodation.
- Later period A small rear dwelling added another household to the property.
What we know — and what remains uncertain
The rear cottage date, relationship between occupants and present division of the property were not independently confirmed.
Sources & further reading
- Historic Environment Scotland: 59 High Street and Rear Cottage, Pittulie, LB15881 — Designation status, mapped location, date, fabric and architectural or archaeological interest.
- Trove designation: LB15881 — Parallel national record identity and archival context.
Location
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