Description

Arthur Colville of Edinburgh, builder, 1891, altered at ground. 2-storey and attic Scots Baronial style small tenement with public house and shop at ground, on corner site. Coursed rough-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Continuous hoodmould/string course over 1st floor NW; eaves cornice. Roll-moulded surrounds; round-headed voussoired window; corbels; relieving arch; raked cills; stone mullions. All elevations to North Street unless stated.

N (CORNER) ELEVATION: rounded tower-like elevation with broad timber door at ground giving way to corbelled 1st floor with wide-centre tripartite window and further-corbelled tower-head with gabled dormer window and ball-finialled turret roof.

NW ELEVATION: small window and door in penultimate left bay at ground and bipartite window to outer left; further window and altered opening in bay to left of centre and centre-door shop to right. 4 windows to 1st floor and blank bay with blind tablet to outer left; stone-gabled dormer windows breaking eaves to centre and right bays, and crowstepped gable with window to left; modern rooflight to right of stack.

NE ELEVATION: narrow crowstep-gabled elevation with 2 windows at ground, single window above and round-headed window in gablehead.

S (HAMILTON LANE) ELEVATION: shop window to left at ground and door to right with 2 windows above. Plain dry-dashed return to right.

4-pane and plate glass glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates with fishscale pattern to turret. Coped ashlar stacks with cans; ashlar-coped skews and skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.

INTERIOR: Anchor Tavern with honeycomb plasterwork ceiling; timber bar, decorative gantry and decorative coloured glass panels to lower lights of NW bipartite window.

Statement of Interest

Previously listed as 42-46 North Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56626991

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide