Standing Building Recording

Date 7 June 2012 - 8 June 2012

Event ID 961618

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/961618

out in June 2012 on a derelict row of agricultural workers’ cottages constructed in 1836 (date stone). Four cottages are contained in a single block constructed on whinstone rubble with droved sandstone ashlar dressings. Nine bays form the fenestration on the principal S-facing elevation. The attics were formerly lit by brick-built dormer windows. These were a later 19th-century addition that required the walls to be raised by c0.5m. The interior of the building had been stripped of its

wall linings but the fireplaces, constructed of cast iron grates with cooking sways, were in situ.

The interior reduction of the ground floor was monitored, and this work revealed that the cottages sit on a wide foundation course of unbonded rubble within a foundation trench.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Reports: RCAHMS and Scottish Borders SMR

Funder: Mr Ian Gaston

Mike Cressey - CFA Archaeology Ltd, 2012

(Source: DES)