Description

17th century with later alterations. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan house. Rendered, painted stone margins to openings.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical arrangement. Central door with letterbox fanlight, flanking windows. 1st floor windows arranged above ground floor openings.

W ELEVATION: 1st floor window to left.

S ELEVATION: modern inserted fenestration.

E ELEVATION: attached to 4 Sands Place.

Replacement six panelled timber door. Replacement 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Pitched roof, concrete interlocking tiles, raised skew, beaked skewput to NW elevation. Coped gable apex stacks, rendered to W, stone to E, circular cans.

INTERIOR: central hall with stone winder stair to 1st floor, cornicing to principal rooms.

Statement of Interest

NOTES: It is possible that No 5 was originally a single storey cottage similar to 2 and 3 Sands Place, at some point the cottage was given a 1st floor, this could have been at the same time the cornicing to principal rooms and stone winder stair were installed. The house preserves the old street line of the High Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata IDs Q56614906 Q56614907

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)