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Summary

Description

Late 18th century, replaced/re-worked mid to later 19th century; subdivided later 20th century. Symmetrical 2 storey, 3-bay former library, reading room and librarian?s accommodation forming end of terrace, fronting green; 2 storey wing at rear forming L-plan. Squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone; ashlar dressings. Tooled quoins; long and short surrounds to stop chamfered openings; projecting cills.

NW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: step to replacement boarded timber door centred at ground; 2-pane fanlight; corniced doorpiece with panelled pilasters; single window aligned at 1st floor. Single windows at both floors in flanking bays.

SE (REAR) ELEVATION: projecting wing to outer right with single window centred at ground. Part-glazed modern timber door in bay recessed to left; single window aligned at 1st floor; single windows at both floors in bay to outer left.

4-pane glazing in timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; replacement rainwater goods. Stepped and coped apex stacks; circular cans.

INTERIOR: not seen 1998.

Statement of Special Interest

B Group comprises Nos 9-30 The Green (inclusive Nos excluding 12, 16, 25 and 29), the former Free Church, Main Street (now a village hall) and Nos 29-33, 35, 39, 41, 43, 47, 36, 46 and 48 Main Street - see separate list entries. Earlier fabric evident to rear. An impressive house bequeathed to the village by Alan Swinton following his death in 1888. The conditions of the bequest lead to the creation of a library and reading room at ground with accommodation for a librarian above. Now 3 separate flats, the house remains one of the most prominent in the terrace, fronting the village green. Developed in the later 18th century, the rectangular plan green is lined with cottages on 3 sides and is enclosed by Main Street to the N. Swinton Cross - a classical column dated 1769, still stands in the centre (see separate entry). Individually, the houses lining The Green have retained some good, if varied detailing and thereby, a degree of architectural significance. As a group, they remain an interesting, and relatively rare example of an early planned village, comparable with the likes of Yetholm. In 1866, approximately a century after the replacement of "...a few miserable huts" with "...one spacious square, with a green in the middle" (STATISTICAL ACCOUNT, 1793), Rutherfurd referred to Swinton as a "...pleasant and important village."

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