Description

George Angus, 1832, following the layout of William Burn, 1824; additions circa 1960 in similar but pared-down style to 5 left hand bays at High Street. 4-storey, classically-detailed corner block of shops, offices and flats, forming part of the (mostly) unified layout of Reform Street. Painted ashlar, concealed grey slate roof. Pilastered shopfronts, balustraded to Reform Street (shopfronts altered at Nos 10-14), cill band to 2nd and 3rd floor, principal dentilled cornice and corniced blocking course to 3rd floor; architraved windows to 1st floor, segmental and 2 triangular pediments to rounded angle bay with cornice to 2 flanking bays and corbelled architraves to 2nd floor,

originally 12-pane timber sash and case glazing, now mostly 2-pane.

REFORM STREET ELEVATION: 11 bays to right; fluted Ionic-columned distyle in antis doorpiece to centre bay, shopfronts to left and right, 11 windows to each upper floor. 2 bays to left; shopfront to ground floor, 2 windows to each upper floor. 3 bays to rounded angle at left: shopfront to ground floor, 3 windows to each upper floor.

HIGH STREET ELEVATION: shopfront with 2 windows to each upper floor of original 2 bays at right; 5 later bays to left with pilastered shopfronts and 5 windows to each upper floor.

INTERIOR: not seen.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17809532

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)