Description

Earlier 19th century. Single storey, 5-bay, near- symmetrical,

rectangular-plan cottage on corner site with lean-to blocks and

Baronial E entrance gate formin L-plan. White-painted harl; quoin strips; rubble for E elevation with ashlar dressings.

N ELEVATION: 5 widely spaced bays with additional lower blank bay to outer right. Door at centre (modern); flanking windows.

E ELEVATION: lean-to, white-painted brick projection to outer right. Rubble, half-piended block to left extending S; entrance gate off-centre to left with gabled, rubble block to outer left.

E ENTRANCE GATE: round-arched, covered ashlar entrance, chamfered reveals, with crowstepped gablehead, cruciform arrowslit in gablehead; wooden boarded and studded door with decorative, cast-iron hinge; barred, small observation window; wooden inner frame with diminutive carved wooden gargoyles reliefs.

GARDEN GATE: slender, cast-iron piers with raised panels; pyramidal caps, wooden biparitite gate, narrow railings.

uPVC windows, plate glass sash and case window at penultimate

window to right. Grey slate piended roof; lean-to slate roof to

outbuildings to E elevation. Painted, coped ridge stacks; octagonal cans.

Statement of Interest

Lilybank is shown on the 1st edition map. The principal interest lies in the E elevation.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56620670

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas