Laurieston, 1 Polmont Road, Hawthorn Cottage
Cottage (19th Century)
Site Name Laurieston, 1 Polmont Road, Hawthorn Cottage
Classification Cottage (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Cotton Lane; Mary Street
Canmore ID 138046
Site Number NS97NW 78
NGR NS 91183 79435
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/138046
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Falkirk
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS97NW 78 91183 79435
This is a 19th century two-storeyed house and basement, with a single-storeyed extension containing the kitchen on the E side. The building is rubble-built with slate roofs, chimney stacks, coped skews on each gable, and two pedimented dormers with ornate finials on its N side. There are single-storeyed extensions to the rear which are mostly brick-built.
The house was occupied in the 1870s by Alfred Nobel during a period in which he operated the nearby Westquarter and Redding Muir detonator factories, as well as establishing dynamite manufacture at Ardeer in Ayrshire.
Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), 4 September 1997.
