Carnousie, Woodhead
Cottage (19th Century)
Site Name Carnousie, Woodhead
Classification Cottage (19th Century)
Canmore ID 167092
Site Number NJ64NE 56
NGR NJ 66917 49156
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/167092
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Forglen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Banffshire
Single-storey, 3-bay Arts and Crafts Cottage, built on rising ground. Harled with Turriff sandstone ashlar margins, stop-chamfered reveals, timber mullions to bipartites. E ELEVATION: boarded door to centre to advanced, broad gabled bay, with strip fanlight and decorative cast-iron hinges. Bipartites flanking, with gables breaking eaves above. Modern lean-to addition to S. Casement windows with diamond-pane glazing. Bracketed eaves, barge boards to gables with trefoil motif. Jerkin-headed roof to end gables with red fish-scale tiles, supported by wooden brackets on corbels. Decorative ridge tiles and ball finials to gables and ridge.
Similar in style to Riverside Cottages nearby; also Carnousie Estate Cottages. Sutherland Estates Cottages have similarly bracketed eaves; timber brackets carried on corbels (Historic Scotland)
