Description

James MacLaren 1851. 2-storey neo-Jacobean semi-detached ashlar villas.

S elevation: symmetrical 6-bay with end bays advanced curvilinear gables having canted bay windows at ground, each raised subsequently to 1st, one in 1873. Ornamental piers and bipartites in re-entrant angles. 2-light hood-moulded windows in centre. Single windows with curvilinear dormer heads (only 1 finial remaining) above.

W elevation (Constitution Road) 4-bay with hoodmoulded ground floor and dormer-headed 1st floor windows, 2nd bay slightly advanced with round headed triplets at ground floor, bipartite at 1st single-storey extension to 4th bay E elevation similar.

Slate roofs, octagonal shafted ridge stacks, centre 8, side 2, flues, that No 4 rebuilt.

All windows chamfered and sash and case except modern glazing at ground floor of No 4.

Low boundary wall and octagonal cast-iron gatepiers with ogee caps, one carrying gas-light.

Statement of Interest

B Group with 6-10, 12-14 and 16 Constitution Terrace, (see separate listings).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806699

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)