Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

MAIN STREET, ROSE COTTAGELB19418

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
29/11/1993
Supplementary Information Updated
08/03/2019
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Parish
Yetholm
NGR
NT 81926 27934
Coordinates
381926, 627934

Description

Mid to late 18th century with mid-20th century alterations. Two-storey, four-bay, thatched house with single storey wing to south and byre to west. Rendered to street elevations and heavily pointed whinstone rubble to rear. Red-tiled cills.

East (entrance) elevation: porch in bay to left of centre. Tripartite windows to both floors in outer bays. First floor windows breaking eaves with thatched hoods. Bipartite windows to both floors in bay to right of centre. Tripartite window to single storey wing and bipartite windows clasping angle.

West (rear) elevation: timber lintel to doorway with modern glazed door. Irregular size and distribution of windows. Byre adjoining to left and forge adjoining to right.

Small-pane timber casement windows. Reed-thatched roof with chicken-wire covering, turf ridge. Harled gablehead chimneystacks.

Byre and Forge: whinstone rubble byre with timber lintels to openings, boarded two-leaf doors and roof with purple slates. East gable wall demolished and boarded over. Single storey rubble outbuilding with corrugated-iron roof, reputed to have been forge.

Statement of Special Interest

Rose Cottage appears to have been much altered subsequent to the photograph published in the Roxburgh Inventory - the openings have been enlarged, a porch added, a new window cut across the angle of the single storey wing, and the roof re-thatched to form hoods to the first floor windows. The reconditioning owes more to the Arts and Crafts movement than Scottish vernacular tradition.

It is among a relatively small number of traditional buildings with a surviving thatched roof found across Scotland. A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland, published in 2016 by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), found there were only around 200 buildings of this type remaining, most of which are found in small rural communities. Thatched buildings are often traditionally built, showing distinctive local and regional building methods and materials. Those that survive are important in helping us understand these traditional skills and an earlier way of life.

Listed building record revised in 2019 as part of the Thatched Buildings Listing Review 2017-19.

References

Bibliography

Canmore https://canmore.org.uk/ Canmore ID 59312.

Printed Sources

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (1956) Roxburghshire Inventory Volume II. Plate 103, Fig 549.

The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Scotland (2016) A Survey of Thatched Buildings in Scotland. London: SPAB. p.374.

Online Sources

Historic Environment Scotland (2018) Scotland's Thatched Buildings: Introductory Designations Report at https://www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/publications/publication/?publicationId=8b3d1317-5a56-4416-905b-a8e800bf4c3c

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)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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