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Cottages, still in use, built in 1875-76 with 20th century additions. The rear walls form a boundary with the Church of the Immaculate Conception (NO88NE0282) to the east, and were formerly all owned by the church, with Number 3 having been the Presbytery. They form a single-storey and attic, eight-bay, short terrace of cottages constructed from narrow bands of stugged ashlar with contrasting droved ashlar dressings two courses deep, pointed-arch openings to the first floor centre, stone mullions, raked cills, chamfered arrises and rusticated porches. There is plate glass glazing in timber sash and case windows to Numbers 4 and 5 and late 20th century glazing elsewhere. The grey slate roof has decorative terracotta cresting, coped ashlar stacks with cans and overhanging eaves with exposed rafters and plain bargeboarding. The principal west elevation has advanced gabled pavilion bays to the centre (Number 3) incorporating a panelled timber door at the north and a broad window altered from bipartite at the south, all under a full-width verandah with a bracketed cornice and cast-iron parapet. The first floor has two original openings at the south and centre, that to the south with a replaced Y-traceried window and that to the centre with a panel inscribed 'Erected as a memorial of William Rickart Hepburn Esq of Rickarton who died 30 May 1873'. The bay to the north has a later five-light, dentilled and corniced, flat-roofed canted window. The bays to the north (Numbers 4 and 5) have unaltered paired panelled timber doors at the centre under a gabled open timber porch, narrow flanking lights and tripartites to the outer bays with tripartite gabled dormers above flanking small later rooflights. The bays to the south (Numbers 1 and 2) mirror those to the north, but with altered windows and additional dormers. Interior features of Number 3 include moulded plasterwork cornices, timber dadoes, a staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters and a sandstone fireplace. Number 4 has an original fireplace, timber work and a staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters. Low, saddleback-coped ashlar boundary walls have battered ashlar gatepiers to Number 3 and decorative cast-iron railings to Number 5. The railings retained at Number 5 survived wartime requisitioning (the fate of those formerly cresting the low boundary walls) due to the mill lade running along the side of Rickarton Cottages. Photographic recording of No. 4 was carried out in 29023 ahead of proposed alterations.
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