Building record MAB39425 - OLD MAINS COTTAGES, FASQUE

Cottages, still in use, probably dating to the earlier to mid 19th century.

Cottages, still in use, probably dating to the earlier to mid 19th century. The different styles and stone colouring suggest different build dates, but all appear on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map, and they are an interesting survival of rural vernacular dwellings. There is a single storey and attic former schoolhouse to the east and a plainer range to the west, which together with a south range form a group of single-storey cottages in a U-plan around a communal courtyard garden. They are constructed from squared red sandstone rubble with some Aberdeen bond to Numbers 1 and 6, ashlar and squared rubble quoins, some droved, voussoirs, a grey slate roof with traditional small cast-iron rooflights, coped brick and harl stacks with cans, ashlar-coped skews with square skewputts and cast-iron downpipes. Number 1 is the six-bay former schoolmaster's house to the east, which was probably converted from two cottages. The courtyard elevation comprises a panelled, off-centre timber with two windows to one side and three to the other. The outer bays have two slate-hung canted dormer windows and a small later rooflight to the centre. Numbers 3, 4 and 5 make up the piend-roofed south range, which has asymmetrical pointed arch openings, boarded timber doors to the courtyard elevation with decoratively-astragalled fanlights and some blocked window openings. Number 6 is a long, slightly lower range to the west, with square-headed openings and a three-bay courtyard elevation with an off-centre door to one side and windows to the other.

Period Notes
Listed on 29/10/2009. Probably dating to the earlier to mid 19th century.

AOC ARCHAEOLOGY, 2010, FASQUE ESTATE ABERDEENSHIRE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DESK BASED ASSESSMENT AND STANDING BUILDING APPRAISAL (Bibliographic reference). SAB3558.

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Nov 18 2022 12:35PM