Description

James Black 1830, raised from single to 2-storey by C & L Ower circa 1890. Semi-detached pair of villas in a Regency style terrace. Harled and whitewashed with ashlar margins.

FACADE ORIGINALLY SYMMETRICAL: twin centre tripartites (now single light at No 4), entrances set back beneath eaves, outer canted bays. Ornate cast-iron lattice work between canted bays. Canted bay of No 4 heightened circa 1870, a remainder heightened circa 1890, with curved oriel to No 3. Ashlar party division with carved corbel. At attic level of No 4 a timber-framed gabletted square-plan outlook room with pyramdical slate roof and lead cresting fronted by gothic iron brattishing. Single storey bow-windowed wing added to W circa 1870.

Side and rear to No 4, Upper Constitution Street: 2-storey E wing room with square-section wallhead stacks. Segmental arched windows, fenestration altered, below stair to outlook room.

Detached 2-storey billiard room block in similar style but with modern garage door, arched lancets over with modern glazing. This was formerly linked to house by a conservatory bridge, demolished 1980.

Piended slate roofs with overhanging eaves. Ashlar stacks, spiral cans to No 4. Windows sash and case, of a later 2-pane glazing pattern. Lying panes to 2 windows at rear.

INTERIOR OF NO 4: ornate late-Victorian treatment to coved ceilinged billiard room (No. 6) with tiled chimneypiece. Sunflower ventilators in outlook room. No. 6 converted to 1 bedroom flat in 1988.

Rubble-built boundary walls. Low to front with later wrought-iron railings, high to sides and rear, new openings former in 1992.

Statement of Interest

At the time of the enlargement Nos 3 and 4 were owned respectively by the engineers James Thomson of Thomson Brothers and Co, Douglas Foundry, and Joseph Lindsay of Urquhart Lindsay and Co, Blackness Foundry. New houses built to the rear, 1992.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17809045

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)