{"entry-date":"2013-01-29","start-date":"1987-07-27","end-date":"","entity":42156220,"name":"New High Town (Comprising Blairochil; Burnlaw; Numbers 3 And 4; Archway Cottage; Melkridge House And Oakland Nurseries)","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1156483","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":220,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-2.409023 54.969191, -2.409046 54.969332, -2.40918 54.969324, -2.409165 54.969224, -2.409149 54.969136, -2.409137 54.969054, -2.408582 54.969084, -2.408595 54.969166, -2.408749 54.969157, -2.408772 54.969326, -2.408839 54.969322, -2.408828 54.969244, -2.408865 54.969242, -2.408856 54.969177, -2.408818 54.96918, -2.408815 54.969154, -2.409016 54.969143, -2.409023 54.969191)))","point":"POINT (-2.408925 54.969167)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"MELKRIDGE A 69 (T) NY 76 SW (South side, off) Melkridge Village 16/56 New High Town (comprising: Blairochil; Burnlaw; Nos. 3 and 4; Archway Cottage; Melkridge House and Oakland Nurseries) GV II Former brewery now terrace of 7 houses (Archway Cottage is 2 flats). Early C19 with alterations. Coursed rubble and dressings with patches of render on west range; stone-flagged, concrete-tiled and slate roofs; stone and brick chimneys. L-plan with added range on rear of Oakland Nurseries. 2 storeys. South range: each house 3 bays; Archway Cottage at west has elliptical archway; Melkridge House in centre has 6-panel door and 5-pane overlight in pedimented stone surround flanked by canted stone bay windows with cornice; Oakland Nurseries has identical door and surround; 12-pane sashes elsewhere; continuous steeply-pitched roof with 2 ridge stacks. West range from north to south: Blairochil; Burnlaw; Nos. 3 and 4; part of Archway Cottage; 10 altered and scattered openings on ground floor and 6 above; similar roof and chimney details. 2-storey range of former farmbuildings on rear of Oakland Nurseries has 7 ground- floor openings, 4 above and a low-pitched roof. Occupies important site in village. ,","listed-building":"1156483"}