Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

29 DOWIE'S MILL LANE, PRIMROSE COTTAGE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLLB28167

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
17/01/1990
Supplementary Information Updated
24/02/1997
Local Authority
Edinburgh
Planning Authority
Edinburgh
Burgh
Edinburgh
NGR
NT 17976 75703
Coordinates
317976, 675703

Description

Earlier to mid 19th century. Single and 2-storey L-plan pantiled cottage with full-height bowed elevation to W; sited on falling ground abacking upper bank of River Almond. Random yellow rubble sandstone; droved ashlar dressings (some painted); long and short rubble quoins. Single storey brick lean-to addition to rear.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber panelled door in re-entrant angle to right of N wing; single window in bay to left; single window in bowed wing to W. Irregular fenestration (some cement margins) to bowed wing (2-storey at rear).

N (SIDE) ELEVATION: single window at ground centred in gabled elevation. Brick addition to left comprising single timber panelled door, single window in bay to outer left; projecting cill.

Predominantly 4-pane timber sash and case windows; some modern pivoted windows; various rooflights to N and S. Machine-made pantile roof; coped skews; stepped wallhead stacks to W, E and N; corniced octagonal ashlar cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1996.

BOUNDARY WALL: square coped random rubble sandstone wall to Dowie?s Mill Lane.

Statement of Special Interest

Listed, despite alterations, for historical interest as a surviving remnant of a once flourishing industry on the banks of the River Almond. Originally built to house workers in the nearby Dowie?s Mill - a spade and shovel manufactory from 1782 when it was bought by Lady Glenorchy (now demolished). The cottage was part of a much larger group of workers? housing - shown clearly on the 1895 Ordnance Survey map (see separate list entry for Nos 1 - 8 (inclusive) Dowie?s Mill Lane). Previously listed as 22 Dowie?s Mill Lane (Brae Park Road), Primrose Cottage.

References

Bibliography

Appears on Ordnance Survey map, 1895 and 1905; NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND: EDINBURGH (1845) p600; E MacRae, THE HERITAGE OF GREATER EDINBURGH (1947) p11 and sheet III; B Skinner, THE CRAMOND IRON WORKS (1965); P Cadell, THE IRON MILLS AT CRAMOND, (1973) p9, 29, 33 and 37; Gifford, McWilliam and Walker, EDINBURGH (1984) p553; CRAMOND HERITAGE PARK: POLICY REPORT (1985) City of Edinburgh District Council; M Cant, VILLAGES OF EDINBURGH (1986) p46; CRAMOND: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE LIFE OF THE VILLAGE AND PARISH THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES, (1989) p35-39; NMRS photograph ED/16410.

About Listed Buildings

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