Sites and Monument Record: 7-8 Hope Cottages (SMR 1552)
Description
Dated 1874. Pair of single storey attached cottages forming L-plan, cottage orné. Predominantly squared and snecked tooled sandstone. Overhanging eaves. Droved chamfered openings.
E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: (No 7) gabled porch in low wing to left with 1874 datestone. 4 bays to right.
N ELEVATION: half-hipped 2-bay end gable to left (No 7); 2-bays recessed to right with further low recessed wing attached to right with entrance door.
W ELEVATION: 4-bay with end gable to right obscured by modern conservatory. 3-bay low recessed wing to left.
Original leaded lattice glazing in place (except W elevation low recessed wing). Timber boarded entrance door to E elevation (No 7). Graded grey slates. Gable end stacks to S and W with ridge stack at junction between Nos 7 and 8.
INTERIOR: Nos 7 and 8 modernised.
BOUNDARY WALLS: Low rubble boundary wall to E and N with rubble coping, rising to higher wall with semi-circular coping at SE. Original entrance opposite No 7 door, now blocked.
Notes:
Nos 1-8 Hope Cottages, 18-20 Carriden Brae, Carriden Cottage, The Library House and Old Schoolhouse and The Old School House were all built as a model village for the Carriden Estate workers by Admiral Sir James Hope of Carriden (1808-81). The picturesque cottages are well designed and carefully executed and are resolutely English cottage orné in style with their lattice windows and hipped roofs. They were designed with large gardens and at one time had stone pig styes in the garden. Each cottage had its own well with a handpump in the scullery. The cottages all had a blind lattice window ('to keep the devil away' as local folklore had it), of which No 19 is the only one to retain this feature. The floor plan of No 19 may be taken as close to what the other cottages were originally like. No 19's scullery originally housed a boiler for laundry and a mangle. Some of the cottages had a floored attic.
Admiral and Lady Hope were committed teetotallers and it is likely that they provided the Library House and large gardens to occupy their workers and distract them from public houses.
(No 7) Pig sty originally in garden but dismantled and the stones re-used in the garden. (No 8) Pig sty no longer extant.
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