Description

Dated 1896. 3-storey and attic, 3-bay commercial and residential building with prominent central wallhead gable and later shopfronts to ground. Grey stugged granite ashlar with raised cills and finely tooled dressings. Single light openings to slightly advanced central bay flanked by stone mullioned bipartites. Consoled, moulded architraves to 1st floor openings. Shallow pilasters at far left and right, bracketted at shop fascia level. Moulded cornice, shallow parapet and acorn finial caps above eaves level. Shouldered wallhead gable with ornamental balustraded balcony, round-arched opening, keystoned cornice and coped, apex stack. Pair of bipartite, pedimented dormers flanking.

Plate glass glazing to timber sash and case windows. Grey slate; mansard roof; gable end stacks, ashlar skews; clay cans.

INTERIOR: Shops at ground floor retain some simple cornicing (2006).

Statement of Interest

Nos 30-34 Schoolhill is a good local example of later 19th century residential building occupying a prominent position on high ground at Schoolhill. Its Baroque detailing provides a valuable contribution to the streetscape.

Belmont Street was open pasture running alongside the Denburn until the 1770's from which point it was feued for building and construction took place rapidly on the site.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56625343

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990