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Village of St. Combs, which is said to have been founded in the mid 1780s by Charles Gordon of Cairness in competition to the village of Boatlea which was at that time owned by a neighbouring Laird. The village largely consists of typical fishermen's houses, which are laid out in a series of parallel streets. The buildings are generally 1-storey and attic, 4-roomed rubble cottages. Traditionally, the cottages were built gable-on to the sea to shelter them from bad weather. By the 1820s the village had three or four rows of houses, which was built on flatter ground. In the year 1830s a school was built. This was previously the old common ground. This school continued until the late 1880s and was then used as a dwelling house.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)