Description

Dated 1906. 2-storey corner block with shop at ground, and Glasgow Style corner tower. Red sandstone ashlar; rendered geometric tile facing to shop front at ground to W and S; E elevation harled. Timber modillioned eaves course.

W (ESKBANK ROAD) ELEVATION: bipartite window at 1st floor to left; corniced panel inscribed "1906" to right. Window and door to left at ground, modern display windows to right; modern fascia.

CORNER BAY: canted display window at ground. Corniced canted tripartite window at 1st floor, keystoned centre light, moulded cill. Raised to turret above 1st floor; garland and shield-detailed eaves course. felted domed roof with corniced eaves and tapering finial.

S (CROFT STREET) ELEVATION: door to right, modern display windows to left. Window to right at 1st floor; tall shouldered corniced stack to left with decorative corbel. Elevation lower to right; 3 windows at ground; bipartite window and 4 windows at 1st floor.

N ELEVATION: rubble above adjoining building, No 15 Eskbank Road.

E ELEVATION: harled above adjoining building, Nos 1-5 Croft Street.

Plate glass glazing pattern in sash and case windows, some 2-pane upper sashes. Coped skews. Gablehead stacks to N and E. Grey-green slates. Steeply pitched roof to W, piended behind turret. Original rainwater goods.

Statement of Interest

Listed for its strategic position and decorative corner tower, despite unfortunate shop front.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56629702

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)