Cumbernauld Theatre

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 17/01/2024 Local Authority North Lanarkshire Planning Authority North Lanarkshire Parish Cumbernauld NGR NS 76762 75594 Coordinates 276762, 675594 — A gabled row of three adjoining single-storey estate cottages, built in the 1700s and historically associated with nearby Cumbernauld House (1731), which is located 0.5km to the northeast. The cottages are of sandstone rubble construction with an irregular arrangement of window and door openings to the front (south) elevation. There is a part timber, part metal-frame roof structure with a grey slate roof covering and two surviving chimney stacks. There is a small piend-roofed outshot to the rear (north) elevation. The cottages were re-purposed as the Cumbernauld Cottage Theatre in 1962 63. The interior of the cottage row reflects its conversion to a community theatre, studio and bar in 1962 63, with little of the former cottage room plan surviving. One room has a substantial sandstone rubble fireplace with a consoled mantle of 18 th or early 19 th century character. The roof of the easternmost cottage (known as The Brian Miller Studio) has a metal frame. There are additions to the rear, which were constructed largely between 1966 and 1980 (these are excluded from the listing). Legal exclusions In accordance with Section 1 (4A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 the following are excluded from the listing: all later additions to the rear. The various additions on the sloping ground to the rear (dating largely from between 1967 and 1979) include an enlarged auditorium, theatre bar and foyer. These interlinked, modular components are visually modest and discreet with few windows or openings. The additions are simply constructed of standard mass-produced building

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.