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Cottage, still in use, built for Belle Black, later Lady Gordon (+1824) and depicted on historic OS maps. The 1st edition OS map shows it as a T-plan building with adjacent garden enclosure and a rectangular-plan building to the rear. On the 2nd edition Os map the building to the rear has been extended to L-plan. Current OS maps show the cottage has been altered to L-plan and the building to the rear returned to rectangular-plan. Belle (or Isabel) Black was General William Gordon's housekeeper who had a son with him in 1776, and they later married. It is said to have been built by the General William Gordon before his marriage but in its present form at it looks later. It is a Tudor-style two-storey, three-window harled cottage with margins, hoodmoulds to the door and firs floor. There is a heavy crenellated parapet on the corbel-course, crowstepped gables and big shafted chimneys.
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