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Summary

Description

W C Joass, 1902. Pair of single storey and attic ornamental cottages, in need of repair (1997). Squared rubble with ashlar dressings, galetting and harl pointing, projecting cills; broached bull-faced base course. Scalloped bargeboarding and much-weathered red tiles, some missing.

CONON COTTAGE: single storey and attic, gabled cottage. 3-bay W (entrance) elevation dominated by 2 overlapping advanced gabled bays, larger to centre with depressed arch chamfered ashlar doorway and window in gablehead above, smaller recessed to left with blocked

window, lean-to addition in bay to right. Gabled S elevation with canted window on advanced panel, window in gablehead above. Rear E elevation with later lean-to concrete porch to outer right, window to centre and long horizontal window to penultimate right, gabled dormer to left of centre and wallhead stack.

1-6 CONON HOMES: symmetrical semi-detached single storey and attic, near-U-plan gabled cottages, each accommodating 3 flats. W (entrance) elevation of 6 bays with small bipartite flanked by larger bipartites to each side mirrored about centre, and with 4 gabled, tile-hung dormers above. N and S side elevations similarly mirrored, each with gabled bay to W, later, lean-to concrete addition to W of gable, original timber porch with latticed bark covering and segmental roof to E of gable, and door with 3-pane fanlight on return to E, small window to centre and bipartite to outer E bay. Rear elevation with lean-to concrete porches to centre and masking advanced gable ends of outer bays. Glazing patterns masked by timber boards (1997). Ashlar stacks, 4-square to Conon Cottage, tall grooved ashlar to ridge and gableheads of Conon Homes.

INTERIORS: plain and in poor condition.

LYCH GATE: gabled timber lych gate to Station Road. Slatted timber to sides, decorative struts posts and beams to entrances and gableheads, pitched red tile roof with plain bargeboards and ridge tiles.

BOUNDARY WALLS: low rubble coped rubble walls to Station Road, higher to School Road.

Statement of Special Interest

The cottages and lych gate occupy an island site with n M-gabled stone and timber outbidding and stone shed to E of site. They were built as a memorial to Sir Kenneth MacKenzie of Gairloch, and latterly served as Nurses' Homes.

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