Avonlea and Ivy Bank is a pair of buildings in

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, Scotland. They are Category B listed,LUSS OUTSTANDING CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL
– Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park dating to the mid 19th century.Avonlea and Ivy Bank, Luss
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The buildings, single-storey cottages located on

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, are made of

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and

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rubble with pink sandstone margins and dressings. Both possess timber diamond-paned

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s. Each cottage has a pair of octagonal corniced chimney stacks with octagonal cans. The buildings are shown on the first-edition

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map, surveyed in 1864. They are an identical pair with Yewbank and Lonaigview, Fernlea and Ivy Cottage, Laurel Cottage and Ravenslea and Rose Cottage and The Sheiling. Two of the five are on the northern side of the street; three on the southern.

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File:Luss Village - geograph.org.uk - 20937.jpg, Looking west. Avonlea and Ivy Bank, Rose Cottage and The Sheiling and Laurel Cottage and Ravenslea

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View of the building
– Google Street View, October 2016 19th-century establishments in Scotland Listed buildings in Luss, Argyll and Bute Category B listed buildings in Argyll and Bute {{Scotland-struct-stub

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