Dunblane, The Cross, Cathedral Cottage
Cottage (18th Century)
Site Name Dunblane, The Cross, Cathedral Cottage
Classification Cottage (18th Century)
Canmore ID 234846
Site Number NN70SE 183
NGR NN 78165 01326
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/234846
- Council Stirling
- Parish Dunblane And Lecropt
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
Publication Account (1997)
Other solid stone houses front onto The Cross or Cathedral Square. Cathedral Cottage is a prime example of an early eighteenth-century, plain, two-storey, four-window, rubble-built house. A later example is Cross Cottage, built c 1840, which is a single-storey rubble-built, slate roofed house with an attic, two windows, two large canted dormers and a central door. The manse, rebuilt in the 1960s, contains elements of its original 1829 construction, including the front wall with its Gothic doorway. This group of buildings is particularly important in that all may be sited on the remains of the extensive bishop's palace. There is a tradition that the dean's manse also stood near here, near to the Leighton Library.
Information from ‘Historic Dunblane: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1997).