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The Quoins Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan

A Category B Listed Building in Longforgan, Perth and Kinross

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4574 / 56°27'26"N

Longitude: -3.122 / 3°7'19"W

OS Eastings: 330949

OS Northings: 730037

OS Grid: NO309300

Mapcode National: GBR VG.04QK

Mapcode Global: WH6Q4.0YMK

Plus Code: 9C8RFV4H+X5

Entry Name: The Quoins Cottage, Main Street, Longforgan

Listing Name: Longforgan, Main Street, Steeple Cottage and the Quoins Cottage

Listing Date: 5 October 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346404

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13285

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200346404

Location: Longforgan

County: Perth and Kinross

Electoral Ward: Carse of Gowrie

Parish: Longforgan

Traditional County: Perthshire

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Description

Late 18th century. A pair of single storey, three-bay cottages, with later addition to northeast of The Quoins Cottage forming L-plan.

Steeple Cottage (to west): rubble, red tile roof. Replacement door to centre flanked by four-pane sash and case windows. Coped chimneystack on west gable. Later addition with monopitch roof adjoining west gable.

The Quoins Cottage (to east): rubble, reed-thatched roof with a scobed reed ridge. Replacement door to centre, flanked by 12-pane sash and case windows, small window in east gable. Coped dividing gable wall with skewblock to left, later coped skew to east gable. Two ridge chimneystacks. Small rubble addition with piended slate roof to east gable and large later addition adjoining this.

Interior: not seen.

Statement of Interest

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.

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