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Summary

Description

A long, single storey cottage of whitewashed whinstone rubble (formerly two 3-bay cottages with a small, lower gabled outshot adjoining the east gable), dating from the early 19th century with later additions and alterations.

The building is set back from the road opposite the similarly proportioned Ninian House / Roger Cottage (LB10142). The principal (south) elevation has four windows with timber casements and diamond-pattern glazing. There is a later porch addition at the 5^th bay. The roof has a sandstone ridge and coped ridge and end stacks, with a covering of graded grey slates to the main range. Replacement grey slate to the additions and rear elevations. Substantial late 20^th and early 21^st century additions to rear.

A decorative cast-iron lamp standard with lantern is located beside the roadside access.

There is a rubble whinstone boundary wall.

Statement of Special Interest

Kettle Cottage with lamp standard meets the criteria of special architectural or historic interest for the following reasons:

• While the building has undergone changes (principally to the rear and to the interior), it retains an early 19^th century character, including timber casements with distinctive diamond-pattern glazing and an uninterrupted roof line.
• It forms part of a group of historic cottages (also listed) of traditional character, likely associated with the historic policies of the Glasserton estate, and contributes to its small village setting, which is relatively unaltered.
• As an early 19^th century example of its building type.
• For its social and historical interest, enhancing understanding of likely former estate origins of buildings.

Kettle Cottage is one of a group of cottages comprising the small rural settlement of Glasserton, south of Whithorn in Dumfriesshire. It was formerly two separate cottages, named 'Smithy Row' (Ordnance Survey, 1850). The use of diamond-pattern glazing for the cottages at Glasserton (see also the Posting House and Ninian House, listed separately) indicates probable estate involvement, possibly around the middle of the 19th century.

The decorative cast-iron gas lamp standard with lantern near the roadside may be a former provost's lamp. Relocated to its present site at some point, probably during the 20^th century, it has intrinsic interest as a detailed example of its type, while contributing to the wider group of cottages.

Former Item No 6

Supplementary information in the listed building record revised in 2026.

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