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Latitude: 55.7038 / 55°42'13"N
Longitude: -3.2874 / 3°17'14"W
OS Eastings: 319192
OS Northings: 646349
OS Grid: NT191463
Mapcode National: GBR 52HH.25
Mapcode Global: WH6TQ.GWSR
Entry Name: Green Knowe,two ring enclosures & barrow 550m SSE of
Scheduled Date: 19 October 1972
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM2734
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: barrow
Location: Newlands
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Presumably to design of William Keir, circa 1870. Farmhouse
with contemporary and later steading ranges.
Farmhouse: S elevation: 2 storeys 3 bays, lower single bay wing
recessed at left. Rendered as ashlar, with ashlar margins and
dressings. Central round-headed and keystoned doorway, panelled
door with fanlight; 4-pane sashes; eaves/lintel band; corniced
end stacks; roofed with graded slates. Left wing extends N; small rectangular-plan, piended shed linked to NE angle.
Steading: rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Essentially 2
L-plan blocks around rectangular courtyard. Single storey block
(nearest SE) has slated roof ventilators.
Main range: mostly single storey with lofts contained below
eaves; N wing (includes barn) stepped down slope towards E, conical-roofed horsemill against N wall; W range (includes
haybarn) has series of wide rectangular openings to E and to W at
upper level, forestair at N gable. Detached haybarn to N,
workshop to W.
All roofs slated.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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