Description

Charles and Leslie Ower, circa 1885. High Victorian gothic
3-house asymmetrical terrace. 2-storey and attic squared
rubble with ashlar dressings.
W elevation from left (No 7): gabled bay with ground floor
4-light canted bay with cast-iron brattishing, 1st floor
3-light tudor arched stilted hood-moulded window, 2-light
segmental arched window over, steep gable, bargeboarding
intact, finial missing. 3-stage tower to right with ground
floor pilastered doorway with architraved 12-pane fanlight
and segmental pediment over. Simple chamfered window arrises
at 1st, mullioned and transomed windows above roof-line,
3-light to W, 2-light to S. Square corbelled tower with
octagonal facetted spire, roof partly fishcale, and
wrought-iron finial.
3 recessed centre bays symmetrical. Central canted bay at
ground and 1st floors, corbelled cast-iron brattishing
at 1st, doorways to each side with 12-pane fanlights and
scrolled escutcheons. Plain chamfered arrises to single
lights at 1st floor. Chevron moulded cornice. 2 single
light piended roofed dormers, 1 2-light elaborately
bargeboarded gabled dormer with cast-iron brattished balcony
Finial missing. Right section boldly projecting canted bay.
5-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window, 4
stilted Tudor-arched lights at 1st with corbelled cast-iron
brattished balconies, hood-moulds. 2nd floor corbelled out at
eaves level, stepped 3-light window in steep gable with
intact bargeboarding, coated single-light window with half
piended roofs, finials.
N and S elevations: single and 2-light chamfered windows,
light on NW Victoria Road elevation, 4 tripartites and one
1 blocked, stack corbelled out at 1st rising through
bargeboarded gable. Bracketted eaves to W with single and
2-light piend-roofed dormers. Gable-end stacks at E.
Rear: 2 bargeboarded gables and 3 wall-head stacks. 3
single-storey and attic service wings with dormers and
flat topped roofs.
Steep slate roofs with fish-scale bands. 2-pane sash and
case windows, except where transomed, some modern.
INTERIOR: some houses now flatted, but plasterwork and
parts of the stairs remain.
Low garden wall with rectangular gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Compare 2-6 Hyndford Street.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17812077

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