Description

Dated 1823. 3-storey, 5-bay (1-3-1) tenement. S elevation stugged ashlar, painted at ground; remaining elevations rubble. Base course. Band course between ground and 1st floors. Cill course at 2nd floor.

S EDINBURGH ROAD elevation: panelled door, with plate glass fanlight, at centre; flanked by 3 slightly out-of-line large windows, 2 to right. Smaller window, surmounted by arch of former pend opening; out-of-line to outer left. Regular fenestration at 1st and 2nd floors. Inscription, "W 1823 P", on band course in outer left bay.

N BRUNTONS CLOSE elevation: later piend-roofed square stair tower bay to left of centre; 3 windows to N. Door and 2 stair windows in centre bay. 3 small bathroom windows in bay to right of centre. Regular fenestration in outer bays.

W ELEVATION blank; harled gable wall of formerly adjoining 2-storey building retained with flue.

E ELEVATION: adjoined to No 2 Edinburgh Road (see separate listing).

4-pane glazing pattern in sash and case windows: smaller upper sashes in windows at 2nd floor of S elevation. Modern flush wrought-iron window guards over lower sashes of windows at ground floor on S elevation. Coped skews. Gablehead stacks; former mutual stack and flue of demolished adjoining building retained to W. Grey slates.

Statement of Interest

The tenement was apparently added to in 1834, reducing the width of the Common Close, the original entrance to the town. This property is accessed from Brunton's Close.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56629783

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)